“I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.”

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire – sometimes you can’t see the boundaries anymore.

I like Destiny’s Child.

We chat about clothes and if we’re going on the red carpet we definitely talk about what we are going to wear.

I’ve never had a stylist, and I’ve always chosen my own clothes.

I think when you’re younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.

To think that Donald Trump could have his finger over the big red button is absolutely terrifying.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.

So many girls have become famous for literally nothing – other than falling out of clubs in shocking clothing or going out with a different person every week.

I think sometimes when you begin to examine things – like yourself – suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany’s youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.

My mum had a cousin that had played when he was younger.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.