I’ve spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

When you’ve got the money, you spend it. When you’ve spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.

It’s hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you’re really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be...

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

The time I’ve spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

The sacred bequestOf times long spent with your heartThat saturate and illuminate you nowSo piercingly…