I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

In 10 years, I’d love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs…and it’d be great to share them with someone else.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.

If your franchise has been around for awhile you have to find ways to keep it fresh.

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

I really don't like take-out.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.