I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it.

Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.

In Britain you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.