I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

I don't see myself as the 'Hunk of the Month'.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

There is an hidden energy in a child that works in all areas of growth and development

Writing has the power of permanence.

Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong... I mean, who shot the drapes?

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

Blossoming and unfolding are basically the same thing, but blossoming is more romantic.