Working hard and appreciating the accomplishments that have come from that keeps me grounded.

My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.

They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.

Here’s the thing, making out with a girl on camera … They’re beautiful and soft. I get why you guys are into it.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

The main thing I learned doing love scenes with a woman was, if it's there, it's there.

You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, Oh my god, you're awesome, and then we start dating.

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

In China, if they open the markets, it will force local companies to compete with international players, and the local companies will benefit in the long run.