You can see players do things in training that aren't a PROBLEM but they can't in a GAME situation. You have to work on it, RELAX and be brave.

By the time you are 30 you are STILL TRYING to make your 15-year-old self HAPPY but you are a different person. You NEED to be brave and let go of that.

Always the danger for me in LIFE and in art is not to be BRAVE. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and READ my life away.

We have got to be brave and BOLD and bring people with US, not try and look all WAYS. TRYING to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.

I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to GO. If there are SHOWS that can BREAK through that and be brave, those are the shows that I PERSONALLY enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would WATCH.

You NEED to be brave to able to STAND up to TOUGH atmospheres and against TOP players.

Opening the batting in Test cricket, FACING up to FAST bowlers LOOKING to do their worst with a new, hard ball is incredibly tough. You have to be BRAVE, single-minded and prepared to WORK very, very hard.

I was writing at a really young age, but it TOOK me a long time to be BRAVE enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very PUBLIC way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I STARTED out as a GHOST writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

I CONSIDER myself straight, but if I met a GUY TOMORROW and FELL in love with him, would I be BRAVE enough to accept that without having to change the way I look at myself?

Be BRAVE if you LOSE and MEEK if you WIN.

One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the ARTISTS I've been LUCKY ENOUGH to grow up around is that you've got to be BRAVE.