I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

With the film around for 25 years and the show being around even longer - still running and continuing to fill house all around the word - it's really an exciting and wonderful thing to be part of that.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.

Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

There’s something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what’s lurking in them.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.