"I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been."

"Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised."

"I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to."

"My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky."

"It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most."

"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."

"We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up."

"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."