I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.

A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

Be brave. Don't be afraid to be stupid.

When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.

Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.

Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion