My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, ‘This girl does not even go to school.’

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime…and I’d go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people – extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.

Age does take it out of you, and I haven‘t the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

If you are playing in ‘Charley’s Aunt,’ and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you’ll still have to go on the stage and play ‘Charley’s Aunt.’

Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

When me and my sister were toddlers, it was ‘The Jungle Book’ literally every day. If it was lunchtime, it was ‘Jungle Book‘ time.

New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly; it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

I like to also have an hour and a half around lunchtime every day, set aside to exercise.

When it came to healthy eating, my parents did their best to set me on the right path. At school, my friends ate McDonalds at lunchtime, but I had a packed lunch that my mother made for me. I hated it at the time, but looking back, I’m glad.

On holiday, I don’t want any plans or structure. If I want to wake up at lunchtime or have breakfast for dinner, then I will.

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I think I just always believed that that was a normal job, and people waking up at lunchtime and working until late at night, that to me always just was quite a normal job.

I’m a nervous wreck. If it’s a 20-day shoot, at lunchtime on the first day, I’m thinking “Only 19 and a half days to go… I can make it!”

Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day – my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!

Here’s how it goes: I’m up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it’s lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it’s time to have a drink.

Never be tempted by water. The water tap should be sealed at lunchtime. If, for example, a sauce goes wrong, adding water doesn’t help at all; one only achieves a taste of dishwater.

In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

On ‘Game of Thrones,’ I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we’d see photos of what we’d shot online and think, ‘My God – people really care.’

New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly; it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

I go to Topman at lunchtime and stare at these beautiful, beautiful people who work there and who are so well-dressed. And I think: ‘Oh! I want to look like that! They’re amazing, how well-dressed they are!’

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

I don’t drink at lunchtime because I’m very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I’m on a film set.