Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

Some leaders are born women.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.