A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.

No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.

You create value, and you create jobs.

I'm more convinced than when I accepted this job that we can create a viable Ford Motor Co. that makes cars and trucks that people really do prefer. And we can make them using minimum resources and minimum time and be competitive with our competition.

The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency.

With Sync technology, we're seamlessly connected to the Internet, hands-free, and able to focus on the road but also able to handle guidance and navigation and play your music.

It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.

It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.

Both Boeing and Ford are absolutely committed to safe and efficient transportation.

It's just really important that we have boundaries and guidelines to operate. Our homes, the cars, everything is going to be on the Internet. And so what are the guidelines? What do we want?

If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.

It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?

I don't see anything changing about our desire for quality and fuel efficiency and safety and smart design, no matter what the vehicle size.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.