Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.