If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.

The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!

I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.

I like doing stuff with my friends.

When I find a look that I like, that's my entire wardrobe.

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

It is in the midst of laughter that our perspective alters and we realize this trying life can still be enjoyed.

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

Nill illigitamus carborundum

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.