"If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock."

“I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.”

Source : "Sophie Thompson: 'I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I'd find the funny bits'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

“I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.”

“No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.”

“My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.”

“When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.”

Source : Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

“What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.”

“I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.”

“Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?”