A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.