My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

Sometimes the only way to gain someone's favor is to stop giving them yours.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do that's different or - and how can I make the country better? How can I improve it?

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.