He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I’ve never tried this, and I don’t recommend it.)

The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion.

Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.