Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

I come from television where I feel like I'm in people's living rooms every day so it's not crazy for me to think that like a ten year old would know, but, I don't know.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.