Quotes

I love spicy food.

I love a warm bath at the end of a day.

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum.

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

It's a lovely thing to see intelligent argument, unbending principle and policy go up against demagoguery, nativism and vulgar name-calling.

Any reporter who's ever covered the Middle East can tell you about the Arab leader photo op. It is one of the most curious acts of solipsism ever invented. The beloved leader-for-life, a king or a president, always a man, appears on some hideous filigreed-and-gilded couch or chair, chatting with an important visitor.

Politicians pose and grip and grin, and mouth blandishments, and, like the beloved Arab leaders, are careful to say nothing. The prime photo op directive, it seems, is to say absolutely nothing.

There's always an excuse to celebrate someone you love.

Be thankful for all successes, lose your ego, take risks, fail fast, and if you don't absolutely love what you do, run!

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

I love the idea that you would wear vintage stuff with new stuff and wear stuff that's 5 years old.

I love hanging out with kids and my husband - I love traveling with them. We can go on the most epic journeys in like five days.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

I, forever a product of my Scottish Calvinist upbringing, never knew how to react when someone smilingly took both my hands and told me 'Jesus loves you, and we love you.' I'd just grin rigidly, and urgently will it to stop.

I've seen former vice president, and now Democratic leadership candidate Joe Biden up close. He seemed a pleasant fellow. But I'm damned if I can remember anything he said, besides how much he loves everybody.

I love playing characters that have secrets.

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.

I would love to do a Black Widow movie. That's perfect, I would love to do that. That character is really interesting: she doesn't have any superpowers; she just has extraordinary skills, and the world that she comes from, being this ex-K.G.B. assassin, I find that really fascinating, yeah.