It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.

Whenever I don't have anything to do, I play Candy Crush or Scrabble. We actors have time between shots, which we need to kill. And we cannot call friends or family, as you are called at a moment's notice. So you need to do something which you can dispose of immediately when called for a shot.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.