Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.