"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”

“If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.”

“I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.”

“I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.”

“Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce”

“There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.”

Source : Philip Sidney, Geoffrey Shepherd, R.W. Maslen (2002). “An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition”, p.87, Manchester University Press

“One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.”