I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.

Always be conscious of the fact that someone somewhere is learning a new lesson watching you live your life

A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.