What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street.
I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.
I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.
Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.
I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealand's economic performance.
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.
We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.
While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.
That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
My favourite thing is to come down to London from my home in Staffordshire in the helicopter and then get my bike out of the back and cycle into London. It's wonderful.
I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.