Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market.

The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

New York is the best food city in the world.

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person within the church. I do encourage any person who believes they have been a victim of abuse to come forward and to inform the police.

A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

Feeling superior doesnt make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.

Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun."

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.

Keep close to natures heart and break clear away once in awhile and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I don't kid around.

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.