My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

One heart cannot serve two masters.

You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba.

I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.