One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don’t really say that I’m an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.

Don’t ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

When you ask me to sign your NDA, you’re basically saying, in writing, that you don’t trust me.

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

Everybody asks me, ‘So, what are you doing now?’ Why must I be doing something? All my life I’ve been doing something. All my life I’ve been doing. For now, I’m being — being quiet, being grateful.

Don’t ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I’m someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.

A lot of people ask me what my favorite episode of Full House was, I always tell them: it was the last one!

Here’s an idea: How about just ‘Americans?’ That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our ‘separateness’ is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’

I don’t have to support Bibi, his government or any other conservative organization in order to come and play music in Israel, for people who want to come and listen to music. I think it’s b******t to ask me to boycott Israel and not America. It’s interesting that some people choose to pick on Israel and isolate her… I was invited to perform and that’s why I’ll perform, as long as the border is open and I’m welcomed. I’m just coming to play.

I don’t think I’ve done any profound work yet… People ask me, ‘How would you want to be remembered?’ I tell them I don’t want to be remembered! I’m not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I’m not that kind of a person. And I’m not brash about it; it’s just the way I am.

Not a day goes by where I’m not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But because ‘The Hobbit’ has been talked about as a project for many years, I knew that at some point I’d have to reengage with him.

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

Americans are so direct. They’d ask me, ‘What’s your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?’ I don’t know what I’m having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it’s going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn’t. There’s that guy who scores goals – Taarabt. Routledge I’ve heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don’t mix with them so I don’t know them well. I don’t go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I’ve got an inferiority complex.

We’ve just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we’re happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.

Don’t ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don’t know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

Guys think that if a girl is pretty, she’s automatically going to say no. Most of the guy’s I’ve gone out with, I’ve had to make it completely obvious that I’d like them to ask me out. Or, I’ve had to ask them.

I was a writer for ‘New York’ magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

Many ask me whether pranayama … postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn’t die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.

I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I’m doing in their house.

Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

You ask me: ‘Was he a fair player?’ I say: ‘No, I’m sorry, for me he was not a fair player.’ I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It’s not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That’s right, records! Man, they don’t even make records no more!

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

When other people ask me, ‘What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?’, my answer is, ‘If I don’t, someone else, perhaps less qualified, will.

…don’t ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let’s just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?