Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.