I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical.

As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

God is even in a single parent household.

John Muir, Earth — planet, Un

What you do not sow, cannot grow.

Love is an afternoon of fishing when I'd sooner be at the ballet. Love is eating burnt toast and lumpy graving with a big s

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.