The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.
No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.
My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.
