When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.
Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.
I'm tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies!
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I think what's important is if someone is sexy.
As an actor, if you decide that someone is bad... you can't play bad, because even the worst person doesn't think what they're doing is bad.
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.
And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.
If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
If you possess the basic necessities in life, there is absolutely no reason for you to feel any sorrows. For there is someone praying to be in your place.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment might also do the trick.
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.
Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.
Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.
