"I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba."

"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."

"I "think "that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

"How can we help President Obama?"

"Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do."

"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

"I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air."

"Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you."

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

"What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written."

"A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them."

"Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about."

"I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love."

"If you want to remember me, organize!"

"Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early."

"A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished."

"I allow myself to not feel the need to be some sort of wonder woman. You can't do everything at once and tear your hair out when you miss your baby using a potty for the first time, although my son was obviously very sad that his mum was not there on his big day."

"I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater."

"I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York."

"You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today."

"Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before."

"Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now there was nothing at all to say."

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."