I have always been of the belief that whatever the conditions, you just crack on with it.

The road can become a very lonely place. It's not what it's cracked up to be. Of course, it's what you make it.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that's just a part of life.

I wasn't the tallest kid when I was little.

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls' most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.