We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

What is poetry? The person who answers it, can't be a poet!

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.