23 quotes found
Actor · English · 1943
English actor (born 1943)
“I've got a false lip.”
“Tomkinson: What are these? Mother: Shoe trees, dear...”
“It's not a model if it's full-size. It's a ice-breaker!”
“One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.”
“Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.”
“My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.”
“I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.”
“As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to t...”
“It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars...”
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”
“[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state ju...”
“Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.”
“I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.”
“The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.”
“I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life...”
“One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.”
“Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.”
“There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's she...”
“I wish them a long and happy life. If it's as long as their wedding, I'm sure they'll be fine.”
“The use of the word just by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in Just pull that sword out of the stone or Just split that atom.”
“Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people. Cries of They’re evil, let’s get ‘em or The infid...”
