The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal

I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

The strength of the team lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.