"I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate."

“I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too,”

“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”

“The people know what the land knows.”

“The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.”

“UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.”

“Remember when Obama was campaigning? Didn't he say he was going to close Guantanamo Bay? Didn't he say that? Apparently, he just meant for renovations.”

“As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.”

“"Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?"”

Source : Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing