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“I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.”
Source : "How to Become a Star In 1 Easy Lesson: 'War Horse's' Jeremy Irvine (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 29, 2011. 
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“If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.”
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“Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.”
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“For the longest time, I was just playing music and not really expecting any success - just kind of doing it because I liked doing it. While doing that, I went on a lot of shitty tours, playing to nobody, so I think it makes me appreciate it. Our band the New Pornographers have been popular for a few years now, but it still shocks me. I remember thinking we were hugely popular when we sold 15,000 records, and now this one sold 30,000 in two weeks. I'm grateful for the whole thing.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms. . . . On philosophical grounds too I cannot see any good reason for preferring the big bang idea. Indeed it seems to me in the philosophical sense to be a distinctly unsatisfactory notion, since it puts the basic assumption out of sight where it can never be challenged by a direct appeal to observation.”
Source : Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”
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“I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.”
Source : "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.
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“The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
Source : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2000). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur”, p.154, Harvard Business Press
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“I don't do live things.”
