I turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises me now. It is a completely different life for me.

I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.

I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

Riding Valegro always makes you smile, so I enjoy it.

You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true.

If a guy is put off by you being a feminist, you need to ask yourself how put off you are by someone who doesn't believe in equality for women.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face it's like architecture or mathematics.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Life is a beautiful struggle.