I was always insecure about the way I looked.

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

It's an odd world.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying.

When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.

I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Transatlantic links are very important.

All I want is to let women know that I will be there to support and encourage them when they set out to do something.

I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tick. But to find a character like Kai, who is so far that he doesn't even feel things, he is so different from me. That is the most exciting part.

It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All it did was trigger my anxiety, and all of sudden everything would snowball on me.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'Cool, that's something I want to do.'

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.