Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own which would probably comprise a very low level of corporation tax - tax on corporate profits - and perhaps a low level of corporate sales tax, because sales are where they are, and sales in this country are sales here, which we can tax here.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.

Every person has his or her own journey.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Every film deserves its own unique look.

If you stay cocooned in your own safety net, you cannot grow as an actor. You need to be socially engaged and invested to hone your skills.

I hate downtime.

For 'The Book Thief,' I wanted only one outcome, and that was for the director to follow his own vision, just as I had.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

With my YouTube videos, I used to edit a lot of my own videos, so I've gotten used to seeing myself on camera.

Sometimes we don't build up our own cricketers enough.

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.