Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.