When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.