“I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.”

“I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.”

“I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000...”

“I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.”

“I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.”

“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”

“The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Re...”

“But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”