As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

I started my own record label.

I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I'm looking forward to that.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

aren't you, uh... reproducing?"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.