Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

I lead a very boring life.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before its even begun.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

My signature is like a squished spider.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast and we need a little rest from everything even the beautiful.

In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York - I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.

And a child that's born on the Sabbath day

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.