Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
I love Tina Fey because she acts and she writes and she's hilarious and does a lot of different things.
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.
In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.
I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.
Film acting is so different from theatre acting, and TV is about letting things pay off and not winning every scene.
Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.
It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.
They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
