They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I wear black all the time.

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words.

There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

My family are massive fans of 'I'm A Celeb,' so that would be pretty cool. There's so many areas where you can go in and enjoy, but I just like meeting new people.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.