I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English Spanish Yiddish Swahili any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

I didn't know this about myself but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service I really think I've won.

In my own life I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

And I hope America will realise as the only superpower now it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world and to support the United Nations.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor I do a movie that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great at first not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him through them you will realise Him.

When I turned about 12 or 13 I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965 I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.