If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

What I did, I did without choice.

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.

Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.