A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.

A girl could lather up in soap like that.

Take charge of your thoughts!

Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That's me.

Everyone is an artist.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.