“I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at p...” — Paul Bettany Quote

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

I remember when I was younger, older folks would say to me, 'There are three things you don't talk about at a dinner party: religion, politics, and money.' But I think the truth is quite the opposite.

If you come to my house for a dinner party, it looks like a Toyota dealership, because every single person I know drives a hybrid now.

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

I cook. Well, if I'm giving a dinner party I get in help.

I'm kind of a brown-rice hippy. I don't think I'd have much success if I tried a dinner party, but I'm not going to have one, and I've never been invited to one, and that's just fine.