When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service I really think I've won.

Four hours of prosthetics every morning the jowls and the nose and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day and you're still petrified of so many things such as can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels even though he had the softened California consonants.

If I'm working on a film I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like 100 in the morning or something.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

I'd always been a news junkie always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power control sexuality and race.

It's very important to write things down instantly or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

You know the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

Sometimes in the morning when it's a good surf I go out there and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.