Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.
I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don't know.
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.
I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.
I was lucky to grow up in a culturally diverse area knowing a lot of different people from all different walks of life.
At times, I lack privacy.
I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.
Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had less exposure to as a young man. I've interacted with more poor people, more minorities and more sexual minorities. As you get more people from different backgrounds involved in your life, you get a broader perspective and you're less cavalier about your opinions.
Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.
I wish I had a little bit more privacy.
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.
Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.
This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated that.
