Directors never give you anything.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Directors never give you anything.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.

I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.

Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life but the creativity as well. No one of Gods children should ever be bored with life.

I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

I am ready.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

If you put pesto in a squeeze bottle or just at the end of a spoon and drizzle it, it looks so much better. It's the little things. Plating is actually easy once you learn the little tips.

Being stubborn means resilience in the face of negativity. You'll begin to see that you have what the naysayers don't. Their criticisms and their judgments, are rooted in their own weakness, not yours. If you're stubborn enough, you will rise above the limitations they would seek to impose upon you.

Our government is focused on creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity and on creating the right conditions for Canadian businesses.

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.