It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you...

I sort of make believe. That’s why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

I’m reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I’ve done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more...

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It’s always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style – it’s not like everyone’s going for the same part.

So it wasn’t actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once...

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

You know it’s always amazed me – I think the most startling thing that’s happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Well, the memories were obviously – every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

I haven’t any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

I think it’s terribly important to watch TV. I think there’s a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of...

I have really good female friends. I’ve never bought the whole men-and-women-can’t-be-friends thing. I think that’s sort of nonsense.

My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

OK, I’ve been very wild, but I’ve never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it’s just sort of like a...

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he’s got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or...

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and...

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space – that sort of thing.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I’m a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they’re this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little...

I can never really remember what I look like. I’m just sort of neutral. I don’t think I’m sort of, you know, hideous.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It’s a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It’s really an ancient vibration.

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I’ve done.

What’s so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, ‘We’ve been knocked down, let’s get back up’ mentality.

This is like the telephone problem – no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

There’s something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

Most of the monsters… are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

With Crazy Horse, it’s all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I’m part of it. It’s like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

I’m an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life – I’m looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

I’m always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn’t quantify his sort of influence. I’ve been influenced by nature and science, and I’ve been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and...

I think when you’re 14 years old, I think you’re sort of looking for markers that prove you’re an adult and you’re independent of your parents.

I do feel like the end of ‘Mad Men’ is a sort of a coming of age.

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you’re not gigging constantly you’re not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors,...

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I’ve lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy – let’s imagine we have two farms, and that’s the whole world,...

It’s not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope – and that’s what I do with all my stories.

I think ‘Glee’ was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it’s your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there’s any sort of overlap in content or tone...

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It’s sort of a Pandora’s box of energy for me.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn’t exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

It’s sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

I have my own religion. I’m sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.