"I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it."

"Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself."

"If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough."

"I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over."

"I drive a Prius. I always turn my faucets off. I never use plastic bottles anymore. I use glass bottles. I bring my own bags to the grocery store. And I try to use all natural shampoos and facial products."

"People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him."

"You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."

"If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England."