By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.

The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Remember the 5 Ds of dodgeball Dodge duck dip dive and dodge.

My mum used to ride, and when she was mucking out, I always wanted to sit on a horse. And if she took me off, I'd scream my head off.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.

Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.

There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be That Girl. I even wrote a spec script for it and sent it to Sam Denoff.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.