I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.