I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

I live quite an unsettled life.

There are those that can and those that can't, which catagory are you???

Hope is an adventure a going forward a confident search for a rewarding life.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

Out of all the things about me that could frighten you, you worry about my driving.