I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.

I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down.

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature. Dont give rise to any thought and discover who you are. That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.

She had been a teenager once and she knew that despite the apparent contradictions a persons teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face.

When I signed up for Google Plus, it recommended 500 people for me to invite. You know, and once I invited those 500 people I got another 500 people. So it has a huge install base that it can start from.

For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.

Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.

It is not a fragrant world.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

Though fancy may be the patients complaint necessity is often the doctors.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Tequila is like Duck tape, it fixes damn nearly everything.