I certainly think that he [Alan Rickman] was a kind of actor who needed to grow into his maturity to realize the potential, the huge potential that he had.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

In his humble opinion, she possessed the least appealing traits a woman can put on display: undiscriminating curiosity and nonsensical verbosity.

Hope is the seed of happiness.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.