I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.

I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost, even though you've lived here 20 years.

I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you dont show up.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

There is room in history for all of us.

Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.

Feeling and thinking are directly proportional to each other and inseparable.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.

Mobile phones amplify human talents for cooperation.

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.