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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.

I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.

In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

We've patented the idea... of using the address book as a place to declare that you like a brand. By so doing, the brand has now got your permission to send you personal messages - it could be money off offers, coupons, promotions, just information, whatever is appropriate.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

Team spirit spurs me on. I've always found it easier to be strong for other people than for myself.

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Here in London, you can go for picnics and have a barbecue; you can go to a park and wear bare feet, much like New Zealand. But there's just so much buzz going on; you can be inspired by anything and everything. There's always something to do. Always.

Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their employees' pension funds, I think it has brought a new level of anxiety. People don't feel like they can trust their employer.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

I feel like, when people realize that they are the only person they need to impress, everybody's life will be a lot smoother.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

Life is meant to be cherished, and lived, and risked. You’re scared of the past and all its mistakes. You’re afraid of the future and all its unpredictabilities. I understand that. But you have to learn to take courage. You have to let go and forgive. You have to trust and hope for a happy future.

If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

The playing ground is so uneven, and there have been so many straight characters for such a long time, and so many gay actors that have had to hide their sexuality to get the parts they want to play.