I thought well you might see curves there but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight which I know something about.

It's a massive motor in a tiny lightweight car.

For an actor you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products they're not turning down a car they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island eight hours in the car down to the beach.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights fire needles spiders snakes angry monkeys being shot being hit by a car going blind - you name it I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

I keep my weight low although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race you never give up.

At the end of drama school I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million I gain $20 million.

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy that's a good run.

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it and say his daddy's movie is wack but they loved it.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it don't eat it.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler not an Ezra a Walt a thing of beauty a joy forever.

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought deep freighted with truth and beauty.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.