I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.

The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!

I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.

I like doing stuff with my friends.

When I find a look that I like, that's my entire wardrobe.

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

I live my life until I start the cycle of my dreams, then I leave and search for you until I die.When I come back, I live to remember, I live to find you

Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.