It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that … the ghosts you chase you never catch.

We had our Cup day on a Saturday during the Sydney Olympics and it was an enormous success.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.