And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

I think there needs to be a much more significant filter on those Donald Trump tweets. It's OK to have some unspoken and untweeted thoughts.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated