The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

CLASSICS PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR MARY BEARD on her role in public life

You have those moments: exhaustion, the stress of having an exuberant child, and you don't want to be judged by your worst mistakes. It's a part of life and it's a part of what makes us who we are.

ACTRESS VIOLA DAVIS on the pressure to be a perfect parent

I've not got a plan.

I don't have an ambition to be a superhero.

Maybe I'm a s*** liar, but I don't want to get up at 4am every morning for something

I don't care about.

GAME OF THRONES ACTOR RICHARD MADDEN on his ambition