There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

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.

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.

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

I live quite an unsettled life.

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time