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" Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful. "

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" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "

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" The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors. "

" I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. "

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" Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic. "

" I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship. "

" In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us. "

" When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question. "

" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "

" Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! "

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" Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. "

" Western Europeans are not having any babies. "

" The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen and then helium. And that's what combusts in stars. Finally, stars implode, and they build heavier elements out of that. And those heavier elements are reconstituted in the heart of other stars, eventually. "

" To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion. "

" I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it. "

" The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story. "

" As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective. "

" I can't give a soundbite for love or money. "

" I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating. "

" I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it. "

" When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. "

" When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in. "

" I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish. "

" We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high. "

" If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes. "

" I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible. "

" I'm a little smarter than most. "

" There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold. "

" If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard. "

" How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script? "

" I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society. "