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

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.

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

My new song 'Shrug' I created with two guys. The idea was a message about ignoring haters. People one-up you, stay true to yourself.

When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

Only crime and the criminal it is true confront us with the perplexity of radical evil but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

When making plans, think big. When making progress, think small.

One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren't used to, that there's nothing left to hide.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

Grace can neither be bought earned or won by the creature. If it could be it would cease to be grace.

The drafters of the Constitution... wisely put restraints on the president.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

Make life exciting, and you live longer.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.