"I love being presented a character that boggles my mind. I have to do a lot of work and explore how I can make the guy absolutely real and absolutely believable to myself. And then, I go to work on doing that for other people."

“If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.”

“The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?”

“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.”

“There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.”

“I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'”

“The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.”

Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.197, Zola Books

“You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.”

Source : "What Jamie Dimon didn't tell you on 'Meet the Press'" by Michael Hiltzik, articles.latimes.com. May 14, 2012.

“You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks? I swear now, you never get used to that.”

Source : "Mum Wants A Bungalow". Stand-up comedy tour by Peter Kay, 2003.