"The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness."

“When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.”

“Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)”

“I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.”

“Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.”

“I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.”

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

“While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.”

“One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?”

“Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.”