People can think whatever they think, but that's my strength to go forward.
I always try to look for the best in most places.
Young people are so often dissed by the media.
When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.
I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.
You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.
To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.
Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
. . . Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.
[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.