I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the s….

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There ….

It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling var….

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, b….

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin..

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly..

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back..

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila..

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything….

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish..

Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot..

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And he….

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolo….

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was so….

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self..

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore..

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically..

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on th….

I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem ….

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've n….

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy th….