Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

If I were to live a thousand years, Iwould belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.