I think it’s more interesting to see people who don’t feel appropriately. I relate to that because sometimes I don’t feel anything at all for things I’m supposed to and other times I feel too much. It’s not always like it is in the movies.

I think we’re very complicated and we’re capable of all kinds of things and movies don’t reflect that.

When my mother got home from work she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

When I was doing ‘Scarface’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her look you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001 and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war and in modern Sri Lanka.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East from Britain’s belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

The truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time that doesn’t work for me. I’d just rather sit at home and read or go out to dinner with someone or talk to someone I love or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in but I will be going home at the end of it certainly.

I love coming home to somebody I love being in a relationship.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

The best way out is always through.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed when that little wisdom is its own.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.

Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.

I don’t believe in an afterlife so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Secrecy being an instrument of conspiracy ought never to be the system of a regular government.

There’s always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the ‘best’ courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

And I’m a slow writer: five six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home kill your parents that’s where it’s really at.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they’re legal harder to get.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I wish people would turn off their computers go outside talk to people touch people lick people enjoy each other’s company and smell each other on the rump.

I wish I had coined the phrase ‘tyranny of choice’ but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with all these fabulous women ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug Where everyone kisses and everyone grins and everyone cuddles and everyone wins.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime then I attack them one and all because they enslave the minds of men.

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said ‘What for?’ I said ‘I’m going to buy some sugar.’

I went to college at the University of Kansas where I got a degree in political science.

I went to America and got into a band had success had hits in Australia.

I went to a football school which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans – I can’t get away from them. It’s funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.