It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

I just love New York, I love the people. The energy of the place. I really feel energized working here. I've always been made to feel very welcome, and it's a tremendous city.

Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

Being a slave to a fellow human being, many times, starts with giving his opinion more weight than you should.

In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

Depression is pain in its purest form.

Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

L.A.'s always been good to me.

I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.