Keep on being yourself.

It's a holy city for music.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed.

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

I never thought I'd end up living in Los Angeles while my children grew up in Britain, but here I am, and we are all making the best of it.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.

The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home.

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