It's amazing that for actors mostly it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on in doing so who else is going to be in the movie with you.

You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

Working with amazing people you continue to learn and develop yourself as an actor and as a person.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing because you're helping others and in the middle of that you have to worry about yourself.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up for instance and you can't hear them boo you right away.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

You have to respect your audience. Without them you're essentially standing alone singing to yourself.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off I mean people are like all-round mirrors because let's face it we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway do we.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away alone and get to work.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself to spend some time alone.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

The best thing I've learned is if you're going out never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust they can say be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

When you stand alone and sell yourself you can't please everyone. But when you're different you can last.

When you're surrounded by all these people it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody you feel like you're really alone.

So during those first moments of the day which are yours and yours alone you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

It doesn't matter about money having it not having it. Or having clothes or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

Associate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.