Matthew Goode quotes:

Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.