My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart." Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.

Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!