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.

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.

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

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!

Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.

Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.