I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

You better be on the gas every day.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

When I'm not excited, it makes acting very hard for me.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

People really feel like music is free but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap, and it's good water. But they're OK paying for it.

I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.

We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day when we had to make a decision whether we were going to go to the summit or not. It was already getting dark, but we made the call to go and made the summit, but as soon as we got there, this blizzard just hit.

I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.

It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.

I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

I wanted to show the world, to show United that I was ready to play and I was motivated to play. This comeback just showed that I left United, but the power of my heart was still here, to be honest.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!