"In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite a..."
"In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter."
"I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before."
"Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry."
"Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success."
"I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something."
"Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs."
"We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East."
"My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim."
"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
"I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it."
"Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable."
"I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does."
"You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years."
"Taika asked me to do 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' in 2014, and I was like, 'Yeah, I am keen. I'd really enjoy it.' I didn't have to audition. It was quite cool."
"However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma."
"Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes."
"Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it."
"I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented."
"I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense."
"The acting life can be quite scary, really."
"Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out."
"Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that."
"I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often."
"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."
"We hear about the importance of strong core muscles all the time, but it never quite hits home until you stop and think what the muscles around your stomach and lower back really do."
