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.

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.

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!

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.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

The perfect body protects its owner from disease, gives birth to amazing new people and stops your bones from falling out. The end.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.