I live alone so I always just eat out. When I'm in another relationship, then maybe we'll start cooking together.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

To young people: you have to stay encouraged.

With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.

This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

Art is what is irresistible.