We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.
It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at the moment I'm quite happy.
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so. '
Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.
I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. . . I've never quite been able to shake that.
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!
I live with the people I've always lived with. I'm quite content.
When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!
I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.
I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.