I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

A soul's ugliness can be much more ambitious than her beauty.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

I was a bad boy as a child.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

Maintain your relationships - for all kinds of reasons, friends are vital. Good friends, supportive friends, friends who won't judge you or try to take advantage of you.