My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

People get starstruck when they meet me, it's quite funny.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.