Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

Infuse your life with action.

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

Rock and roll is my religion.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.