I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth for as a rule they make many others die with them often before them at times instead of them.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life right?

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

Skepticism riddling the faith of yesterday prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads round and green these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

I wish I had been more prepared both for success and for failure when I was younger.