Clippings Quotes

I got a review when I was starting in live television. This guy Jack O`Brian called me "hammy and overwrought". Now I`m looking back on it, I`d like to hold on to those reviews. It keeps you in perspective. It really does. Part of you says, "You know, I never ever really got over that." And what I think you learn very early on is not to believe your own press clippings, one way or another, just do your work. Because you`re your own tough critic. If you focus on doing the work, you`ll get to a place of refinement where those reviews which are often hyped up too much to the negative or the positive fall away.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I`m determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

Because in our clippings I see a lot of articles that are very positive about all the stores that are voted by local communities.

I don`t ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.