Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

There's no way you could convince me today that Jesus is not real.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.