I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

I'm awkward around girls.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

it's quite obvious how beautiful Allah planned our lives isn't it? :)

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Have you ever wanted to put your head in a blender and turn on the liquefy switch? (Tate)

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.