I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting

Lord, thank you for the people who care more about me than about their schedules.

The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.

Losing is an illusion that begins in your mind.Winning is a certainty that ends in quitting.

Illuminate the opposition.

Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in.

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.

you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all