I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.