"If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers."

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."

"My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else."

"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."

"As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

"I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."