Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

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

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

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

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