I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.

It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.