“Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sk...”

“My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.”

“We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.”

“Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.”

“I wake up in the morning, and I go, 'I'm Doctor Who! I'm playing Doctor Who. I'm Doctor Who.'”

“A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.”

“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”

“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ”

“I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created p...”

“She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.”

“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there w...”