A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I love being grungy and dirty.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges

If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.

...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

All Marketers are liars tell stories.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.