When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

But I just want to be known for my football.

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

I don't want to marry again. I did that.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.