I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.