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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.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

You've just got to be comfortable with yourself.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.