A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.

I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

Some men send me condoms and underpants. I'm not sure what they want.

I can't dance on ice, because I'm like Bambi on ice.

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.

Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Life is too short not to believe in something.

Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

I went to the store and bought eight apples; the clerk said, "Do you want these in a bag?" I said, "Oh, no, man, I juggle."

It would be a very short pint. It would be gummy bears and matzah, and be called Chewy Jewy.