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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil. "

" Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. "

" 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. "

" I love a good safari. "

" Sometimes a writer just needs a hook. "

" When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor. "

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

" People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy. "

" 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. "

" It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it. "

" To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9', or something like that, is... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything. "

" I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that. "

" 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. "

" Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. "

" I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage. "

" Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making. "

" Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. "

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

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

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" I hate being out of work! "

" 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. "

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

" No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people. "

" I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career. "

" 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. "