I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it an oblique indirect sample of what it contains or what passes through it a point of view.

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

There is no such thing as 'getting' a guy, house and kids. There is only surrendering to them.

I like idiotic comedies.

While there's life, there's hope.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot.

Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

Grief as I read somewhere once is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful and the next day at wounded keening and the next day numbness silence.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.

Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

The gauger walked with willing foot And aye the gauger played the flute And what should Master Gauger play But Over the Hills and Far Away.