I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring [knighthood].

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.

My instinct is to keep my engagement ring - After all, I wouldn't like to see it on the finger of a cheeky girl.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.