Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Some people burn all of their energy helping themselves, while some use all of it helping others. The happiest among us do a little of both.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.