Immature poets imitate

The power to accomplish the life of your dreams rests with none other than you. Whatever holds you back is also within you.

Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine.

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.