Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

Tough times don't define you, they refine you. ‪

Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built.

Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Nature is surely the glorified face of God. See the beauty about you and ... see the manifestation of the infinite Mind.

The more I know, the more I realise I don't know. And the more I realise I'll never truly understand.