My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.
Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.
If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.
Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.
I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word. . . . I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time
A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.
Your simple words just don't move me. . . You're minor, we major. You all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player.