There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

When we shoot 24 there are so many things I have to worry about from the script to technical things to my performance that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season which is like making 12 movies.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes which is nepotism the old-boy network.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable trusted element in another person's life.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary because heaven has granted me no offspring.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so so so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.