Every man needs a good pair of jeans. It's the ultimate wardrobe staple because most of us wear them more than anything else.
A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in a film, whereas I've only ever done bits and bobs? Before I die, wouldn't it be nice to be the scheming old man in a movie?
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Because the Internet's there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words.
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
