Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

We celebrate our diversity, we lift people up, and we make America even greater.

Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.