Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

Big girls need big diamonds.

The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.