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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.

I've got some repenting to do.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

I've got a great collection of photography.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Babies got it going on!

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.