“If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.”

“Everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don’t think they realize it, but it’s like ‘grrr do this, grr do that…’But you do want to stay intact and on two feet.”

“They will only care when you’re gone.”

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

I have to be myself.

I've been very lucky.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

Good scripts are hard to find.

“Never settle. There is no need to rush.”

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you – always.”

“Through your rags I see your vanity.”

“To move the world we must move ourselves.”

“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.”

“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”

“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.”

“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.”