Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Atheism” ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man. Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842

Nobody — not even “a musician of the future” — can live upon future products.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.

The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.

In fact, the proposition that man’s species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man’s essential nature.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.

As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.

Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

Hic Rhodus, hic salta! Here is the rose, here dance!

The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present

The extremity of this bondage is that it is only as a worker that he continues to maintain himself as a physical subject, and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I'd be living where I'm living, doing what I'm doing or married to an American guy. I'm interested to see what will happen next!

Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

But it still feels like it's a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I'm doing a bit better there. But it's good to be scared.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.

I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.

I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.