In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.
I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.
The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.
I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'
They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.
If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.
When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.
I have a trainer that I box with. Luckily, on ER, they'll tell me if I have a shirtless scene coming up and I'll have a few weeks to power it out.
The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.
People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.
As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.
As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.
Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.
