I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Always put people first, for without them, there is no organization

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look.

Dont run before you can walk

Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?

As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world and then get my own apartment.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.