I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

While you're waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down

The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.