There's not many Premier League clubs as big as Sunderland, with their fanbase and stadium and facilities.

I have a running conversation with a couple of colleagues. Mike Schmidt's one of them; some on my White House team are others; Alex Burns on the politics team is another. That just helps me not lose my place, right? We're just constantly talking about what we're hearing and where things are.

It's very hard to retain the Premier League.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

The Premier League is a results business.

Nobody wins the league in December.

Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.

There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.

Let's teach our girls and boys how to show the same respect to their colleagues in the workplace they show their moms and sisters at home.

I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them.

We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.'

The high demands on teams in national leagues and of course the Champions League - it's too much.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

We want to win the Europa League.

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.

I believe in wishing my colleagues and other celebs in a manner that brings my wit out and gives people a talking point. But there are people who love and those who hate you. That's part of a celeb's life.

Forget about hair or our appearance. My acting style is different from my other colleagues.

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

My Oscar has appeared in every play I've done since - not in view of the audience, but for my colleagues to enjoy.