I hone my craft. I keep going. I light a little fire under myself. I look around for roles that will challenge me. And I'm grateful for all the ones I get.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

When I was at drama school, people weren't taking pictures of themselves every five minutes. So I didn't realize how I looked. It was only when people started taking pictures of themselves that I...

If I overexert myself when exercising, I hyperventilate, something I never experienced before COVID.

There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about...

My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated...

I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I believe in life's challenges and I always try to challenge myself.

I believe firmly that people can come back to each other. I think the 20s are a messy time. I myself dated someone at 21 and then again at 23.

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It...

I can't just close myself off to the world, because then I won't be inspired anymore. I won't be able to talk about nothing.

I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them.

I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

To my haters: I don't have anything to say to you; you can see how far I've gotten myself. To those who supported me: Thank you, and I will never stop trying to repay you for all of the things you do...

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

I definitely spent a lot of high school isolating myself because I didn't feel like I fit in. I learned how to be funny.

I have always felt responsible for every character I played, devoting myself to learning everything about the craft.

My mom raised me to be an independent woman, and if there is anything I want in life, to go after it. And that nobody could hold me back. The only person that could do that was myself. That's the core...

As long as I can have a roof over my head and feed the dog and feed myself, I'm perfectly content.

I'm not one of those people that hates myself. I actually love myself.

I love travelling, I always travel with my friends or if they're unavailable I go by myself.

I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.

I've always said that, growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an...

When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to...