I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for.
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.
It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.
We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.
All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.
Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.
Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
