When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.
Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.
I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinar...
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
Pain is temporary, it may lead for a year, a day, a month or a year but eventually it will subside but if today I quit I won't be able to stand again.
I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.
It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.
I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.
