To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

I live quite an unsettled life.

Oh my dear! No matter where you are, I will be with you either in person or in my heart.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.

My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.