I dreaded doing close-ups.

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

I dreaded doing close-ups.

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

To submit ones self to ones gift is to submit oneself to education and self development and to devote enough time to improve ones gift

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

Empathy took the edge off and the truth is we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us and we are too too good at shutting it up.

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to our brand. It means we are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses.

There's no formula.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing

History a biography of a few stout and earnest persons.

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

Real Democrats stand strong for truth telling and never compromise with corruption.

My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for.

A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.