Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

I have been driven demented in my career.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

This is the war I fear.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

You can divide my life into two.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

I cant think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

I think when I was younger, I used to sort of long to be a part of films that were really gritty and hardcore in a way.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life becoming a better person.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

There's no blueprint to snowboarding, you know? You can really just make your own mark.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.