When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

I can be as contrary as I choose.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.