"More people use guns to kill themselves than to kill others."

“I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.”

“I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.”

“They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.”

“Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!”

“One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.”

“It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.”

“If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.”

Source : "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.