"I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life."

"Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library."

"I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money."

"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."

"It is a essential truth that a quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out."

"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."

"I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist."

"The foundation of joy is the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."