There's always this kind of odd idea that people would say, "Oh, do you know the Queen?" But really people are much smarter than that.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

Who puts strawberries in a salad? Seriously, is this a thing now? Is it a thing I don't know about? Is it an American thing? It can be. It's freaking me out.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

Funny is funny. And if it's good, it travels.

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.

When the weather is really hot, I tend to live in denim cut-offs.

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.