Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.
I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.
In business, you try to solve problems.
What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.
Nothing beats an 'Archers' fan for their levels of devotion. I think it's because it's radio, and you obviously conjure up an image of the character that is so powerful.
What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house.
You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.
Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.
You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.
I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.
An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.
If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.
I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.
Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.
