"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."

“Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.”

“The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.”

“We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.”

“It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!”

“My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever.”

“When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.”

Source : "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

“Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.”

Source : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing