Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I have sleepless nights before press days.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

To be happy and beloved have a tender heart, blissful thoughts, and a non-judgmental mind.

Today, tomorrow, " she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The light will and can never be smothered in darkness.

Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!" "Obviously not, " the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice.

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.