In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.