When I was growing up I don't think Muslims and Jews were considered to be opposites.

It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on...

Eventually I will own my own company and will provide advice to athletes and artists from the entertainment industry.

No matter how far you think you have come, racism exists.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

I can totally understand why someone would be like, 'All you do is make videos in your room and show people what you do in your life. How is that entertaining?' I can totally understand what they mean...

I should have contended in more. But there have been things that have got in the way of a nice smooth career.

Casting someone capable of the job who also happens to put bums on seats has always been invaluable to a producer.

I've got a wonderful family life and financial security.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it's true, and it's why I feel some kind of...

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact, it's been a...

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I was interviewing Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris for a Bond film a few years ago, and the moment I sat down, my dress ripped. No more bodycon numbers for me. I had to walk out of the room backwards...

My kids are my priority, then my husband, then my life, then work.

I'd run a mile if anyone in the Royal Family asked me to marry them!

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so...

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

I wanted to experience college and to travel for my selfish reasons.

It's good that people have been surprised at the direction Broadchurch has taken. That's what you want, to keep people guessing.

It is easy to play well when things are going rosy.

I've one cap, obviously I would've loved to have got more caps. I'm a proud Englishman I would've loved to represent my country but that's not the way it transpired and I think the reality of my...

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...

I've been building scratch cars my whole life - my passion is taking something that doesn't exist, creating a concept on a blank piece of paper and making that concept real.

We like people who come to our gigs to dress sharp and to impress.