When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.