I’ve been to three Olympics and I don’t feel I’ve ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

I’m adapting quite well to English football with the same will I’ve always had.

We’re really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don’t they?

I don’t watch that much TV, so I can’t compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes,...

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

I don’t quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

I have a buddy of mine who’s a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It’s as if I’ve expanded my lungs doing it....

I quite like ABBA.

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else’s shoes. And when I look at the roles I’ve played, I’m kind of amazed at all the wonderful...

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I’ve gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to...

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

I think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons’ opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting...

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can’t quite do it as much anymore.

I’ve set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

The idea of doing a children’s film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything – any genre. I’ve only made one Western, which was ‘Three Amigos,’ but I would love to make a...

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

It’s shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven’t got a car yet.

I am quite an early riser – I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

When I went back and watched a couple of the older ‘Doctor Who’ episodes, I could see why some people felt the show had been quite sexist.

I’m quite disappointed that I’ll never relive my teenage years.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

I’m quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.

With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren’t real. There’s no gravity, the light’s not quite real, the shadows aren’t quite real.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

I don’t miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It’s actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

When patronised, I’m unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it’s because I actually feel quite wounded.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.

My mother’s eyes were large and brown, like my son’s, but unlike Sam’s, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can’t quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I’m quite content.

I’m not picky, quite honestly.

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn’t win the race. I am a realist.

You can’t imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and...

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

I don’t want to demonise ‘Johnny.’ I was really proud of what he achieved. Especially within stand-up. He was quite a unique voice. I will always possibly be trading off ‘Johnny’s name, but there’s a...

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you’re going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren’t quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.

I realized that I’m a soft person. I think I’m sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I’m...

I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don’t go on as often as some.

I’m quite a good listener, and I’m good at looking after people.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

I’ll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I’ll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That...