My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I'm not high maintenance.

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.

Teenage girls like certain things I wear - or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened.

I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life.

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

I'm stupidly proud of myself.

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.