"I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world."

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

“And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?”

“I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.”

Source : "Howard urges limits on 'too easy' abortions" by Gaby Hinsliff, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2005.

“A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.”

“There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.”

“Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher”, p.333

“I don't do what you people want. I Do What I Want!”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

“When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.”