I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there."Still in the showers, " said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

There is something comforting about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

If you like soggy cereal, then we not friends.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.