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

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.

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.

I live quite an unsettled life.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

If there was no darkness, there would be no opportunity for light to overcome it.

even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.