I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.

...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well, how can that be real?""Prove that it is not, " said Xenophilius.Hermione looked out

Sometimes it is important to sit back and think about your life. Then you realize how awesome you are.

As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" Yet here I am, so I'm lucky.

It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]

Of course we're still having the concert. Don't let a little rain ruin your night.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.