In some strange way, this was meant to be.

To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.

I was right for the role. It's as simple as that.

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.

It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time.

I'd love to fly, especially with the gas prices right now.

I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.

In some strange way, this was meant to be.

My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.

For years, whenever I'd been travelling and came back to Copenhagen, I'd think: 'People are so stylish.' And it's not any one class. It's everyday life.

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.

Cleveland people are crazy; that's why I live here.

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

The happiest street in the world the street where the four seasons of the year live together at the same time the only street on Earth that I wish would never end rich in sounds abundant of breezes beautiful of meetings ancient of blood Rambla de Barcelona.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.