I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

To live peacefully just look up into the sky and watch how the clouds drift in total acceptance. Instantly, you shall find Peace.

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

Pray for rain while digging a well.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.