I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.

People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

I can watch a sunset on my own.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

Whole worlds’ darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....

Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.