Personally I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

Personally I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm. I would just like to be more like Troy because he's so cool.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

If I wasn't even famous or had any success I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween too.

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

The funny thing is the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.