I damaged my health during 'Les Mis, ' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

This was so unfunny, Steve had to laugh.

If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense … sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.

A true friend is like a soldier that never abandons his partner alone in the battle field”.

The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties?

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.