I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.

But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.

I am myself of a mixed background.

I think nudity is funny, especially when it's inappropriate.

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

I am not a consecutive writer.

I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

There's some bells you can't unring.

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.