There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, ‘Well, it’s either theater or film for me, and that will be that!’

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I made ‘Going Greek’, which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.

Well, there’s a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there’s a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic...

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

Robert De Niro’s sort of like a surfer: he doesn’t really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out – to watch a guy be a force at what he does....

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches,...

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...