I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

If an artiste has the conviction to carry something off, he or she can do anything.

I'm a big Miley Cyrus fan. I think she's really awesome.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

After I won the Oscar for 'Pollock,' some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!'

I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

I think an engineer has not matured until he or she has conceived of a product and participated in every stage of bringing it to fruition, if that makes sense. And not many engineers get to do all of those stages.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.