“Let me acknowledge that I realize that, in honoring me, the Committee ...” — Paul Samuelson Quote

Let me acknowledge that I realize that, in honoring me, the Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences is in fact saying a good word for all of those of my generation who have been laboring in the same vineyard.

In well-functioning markets, price equals opportunity cost. Meaning that the proper way to price out and charge us for things is to charge us what those resources could otherwise have produced. This is a lesson the Soviet Union never learned at all, and the rest is history.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I recently started my own NP17 Academy within Liverpool Community College, which gives 16-19-year-old girls an opportunity to embark on a sports career, whether it be as a coach, player, physio, or nutritionist.

I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.

Academies place a high premium on local community engagement.

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.