I never talk about filming until I'm actually on the set and I've got the job, because otherwise - "Oh yeah, I'm going to be so busy," and then you're going to see me in McDonald's in two months.

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

When somebody says, Action, I act. When they say, Cut, thats my job. Ive done it.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

How do you look when I'm sober?

One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.