Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'