Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.
I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me,...
I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kic...
I'm good at keeping secrets.
I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.
I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
