They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with.

I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

One of the most important pieces of advice that I have learned is to listen to your customers. They will be able to tell you how your business is doing and what direction you need to go in.

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

Everything that's important - you can take with you.

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: ‘Faster!’ He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.