Have you returned anything you’ve purchased recently? Why?

What was your first job?

Have you ever met anyone famous?

What are you reading right now?

If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?

Who’s someone you really admire?

Seen any good movies lately you’d recommend?

Got any favorite quotes?

Been pleasantly surprised by anything lately?

What was your favorite band 10 years ago?

What’s your earliest memory?

Been anywhere recently for the first time?

What’s your favorite family tradition?

Who had the most influence on you growing up?

What was the first thing you bought with your own money?

What’s something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?

Seen anything lately that made you smile?

What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?

Have you had your 15 minutes of fame yet?

What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?

How do you like your eggs?

Do you have a favorite charity you wish more people knew about?

Got any phobias you’d like to break?

Do you collect anything?

What’s your favorite breakfast cereal?

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.

I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

Most of the people we sign on as development agents commit to goals they don't believe are possible.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.

I don't know what it is, but French men love me.

It's not like I love dragons! Only on 'Game of Thrones!' Our dragons are amazing, and they look really real. But I think after 'Game of Thrones,' I won't be a fantasy fan.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.

I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me.