I think it's good for sporting justice that Ronaldo scored twice in the final.

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.

I think Ill take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

I'm very Canadian. I want everyone to love me, and I just get nervous.