I want to be the BEST VERSION of myself - INTELLECTUALLY, emotionally, and physically. So I like to WEAR clothes that I feel COMFORTABLE in, that reflect that.

After MOVING from Montreal (where FRENCH vs.English is the only CONFLICT) to New YORK (where everyone is obsessed with race) it was impossible to IGNORE how intellectually lazy and knee-jerk people are when it comes to any mention of ethnicity.

I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, BREATHE and SLEEP acting. And I'll end up with someone who is HAPPY staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is PASSIONATE.

I WANT to be a PART of SOMETHING that's GOOD and INTELLECTUALLY challenging.

I GET OVERWHELMED when I APPROACH THINGS INTELLECTUALLY.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and MARKED by a search for a faith which would be satisfying INTELLECTUALLY and ethically and would GIVE ASSURANCE of immortality.

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an EMOTIONAL vocabulary as a PRIMARY EXPERIENCE. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the PERFORMANCE.

It's WONDERFUL when MUSIC is intellectually stimulating. But ULTIMATELY it has to be a VISCERAL experience.

I know intellectually that if I SHAKE somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and DIE.

I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. CAREFULLY. LEGALLY.

Some PEOPLE have theorized that I lurched to PROVE myself INTELLECTUALLY. But it was not any lurch. It was more a KIND of AWAKENING.

Intellectually, Stephen was a towering GIANT. Bodily, he was as HELPLESS as a newborn. The FUNCTIONS I fulfilled were all maternal RATHER than marital.

Comedians COULD do mindless things - and by mindless, I mean the easy JOKES and things that you already agree with - but I FIND it more interesting, more of a reward, for people to feel something. I like to make a human connection, and that involves speaking emotionally, a bit more INTELLECTUALLY, or with a bit more MORAL complexity.

The assertion that the war in Iraq has had no role in increasing the TERRORIST threat to Britain is CLEARLY just INTELLECTUALLY unsustainable.