I'm not an actress. I just have to be myself.

I'm not an actress. I just have to be myself.

I expend a lot of energy in my 50-60 minutes of cardio and strength training every day.

A good leader makes a good follower.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

The wild, cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.

Three things you should never break: Promises, trust, and someone's heart.

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lords desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

Live life to its fullest or it may seem like you died young.

'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.