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

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.

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace...

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

Be mindful of your thoughts and words for they are the pen writing that which will manifest.

Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.

We will never privatise the National Health Service.

America, we need to pray and lead from our spirits and not our emotions - and definitely not with our weapons.

I am strong.

Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.

I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.