I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

For some reason I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge.

Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

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

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.