We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.

London is a roost for every bird.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.