QUOTES of the week

‘Is there anybody in the world for whom their child is not the most precious thing? They woke me every morning to play with me. Now everything is gone.’

Abdullah Kurdi, whose wife and two young sons drowned after their boat packed with refugees from Syria capsized

off the Turkish coast. ‘I used to get asked all the time, “Don’t you worry that you’re going to get typecast?” I mean, talk about a high-class problem.’

Daniel Craig

isn’t worried that playing James Bond will stifle his career. ‘The bodyshaming has to stop. It’s b*******. Something has to be done, changed, even if it’s done in law.’

X Factor judge Cheryl Fernandez

Versini demands an end to stories about how women look. ‘Hanging out in Ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want – and I’ve never felt more isolated.’

Markus Persson may be the billionaire creator of computer game Minecraft, but it seems money cannot buy happiness. ‘The only reason the Ayatollah and his henchmen aren’t dancing in the streets of Tehran is that they don’t believe in dancing.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, after Barack Obama secured US backing for a deal to limit

Iran’s nuclear programme. ‘It is because I see modern capitalism doing everything in its power to make the case for the Corbyns of this world that I am in a state of volcanic eruption.’

Sir Bernard Ingham,

Margaret Thatcher’s former press aide, explains his angry mood. ‘A heavy and tasteless pudding. A collection of all the most hackneyed British cliches. A storm in a lukewarm teacup.’

Le Monde critic Fabienne Darge condemns Benedict Cumberbatch’s

portrayal of Hamlet. ‘I don’t think I’ve got bad taste. I’ve got no taste.’

Chat show host Graham Norton

gives an honest assessment of himself.

‘Glad this was the only Bear I met in the park.’

Barack Obama,

takes a selfie with survival specialist Bear

Grylls while visiting Exit Glacier in the

United States.