Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

The electrical grounding system is the largest radio frequency (RF) radiation antenna system ever constructed in the history of mankind.

Age does not matter if you're chasing your dream. As long as you work hard and smash those obstacles in your way, you'll see some progress.

When we return continually to the present moment and our centered awareness within it, we remember we are eternally connected to the Supreme Source that lives within us.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

It's cool to play a vampire.

The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.

Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.