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.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

I don't know which other actor has done as many hot scenes as I have. I pretty much have the monopoly in the bed scene market in Bollywood.

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for'.

I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an interest in the arts. I took piano lessons and singing lessons, acting lessons. So it was all new to them, but my parents were great.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

What you are will show in what you do.

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.

After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

The Moon stabilizes Earth's obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees - and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon, it might be much worse.

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Forsake not an old friend: for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine: when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Let me tell you this: if Marco Rubio - even though he's only been in the Senate for a very short period of time, that man has a huge, huge opportunity in this country, and I think he could be the president.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.