I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

I'm a terrible dancer.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

If you want something new, then come up with a new idea and take action.

Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!

If you are my friend,you are down for me at all times,not just when it's convenient.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.