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.

It’s like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless...

As an actor, you’re sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That’s why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I don’t feel comfortable with violence, and I’m not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it’s something I’m reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there’s tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It’s...

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, ‘No, you’ve got it all wrong!’ I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked...

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

I’ve spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I’ve learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I’m...

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

I’ve been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

I don’t do much more than organise other people’s ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

I can’t bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn’t grab me. I don’t think she’s interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

I don’t sit there and speculate. I’m not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too...

There’s lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he’s not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

You see another side of Draco when he’s with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn’t say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He’s sort of bullied by his dad, so he...

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not...

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

And that’s how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I’m reading, I’m tweaking – putting in a...

Fans are afraid to meet me. They’re sort of afraid for their lives and won’t look me in the eye.

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service...

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I’d pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

As an actor I’ve been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, ‘Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.’

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken...

There’s nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It’s sort of the fabric and anchor of our country.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.