I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.

Every season is filled with lessons.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.