I've been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, `Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's why I'm doing it. "Schindler's Bloody List," "The Pianist," Oscars coming out of their ass.

That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.