Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.

At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situations.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

I can be quite fiery. I was worse when I was younger but even now, when there is a bad decision from... it doesn't matter who, I sometimes want to scream.

I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. What's going on in the States with some of these cable shows like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Mad Men' is amazing stuff.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I don't really like school. It's really not my thing. I was barely there when I was in high school because I traveled so much. When I put effort into it, I can deal with it. But soccer was my main priority. That can sound bad, but it was.

I've always wanted a movie where the bad guy came out on top. It would shock the world.

Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.

My son's birth was pretty life-shattering, in good ways and bad ways. I realized that I needed a doula because I'm not close to my mom, and I don't have a lot of people in New York.

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

I've been playing golf for a little while and I can't get over the 85 hump. It doesn't matter how good or bad I shoot on one side, I'm going to end up around 85.

I am attracted to bad people because they are very human.

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.