I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

I am a huge fan of 'Doctor Who.'

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.