“I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.”

“None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.”

“I got the famous Oprah hug!”

“I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.”

“One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.”

“Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.”

“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”

“Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.”

“To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.”