Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

Single by choice, just not my choice.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

I rarely think in words at all.

If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.

I am the epitome of what you dream to be and the reality of what you can't be.

Kim: "What, a coffee? Hollie, I have some bad news. I hate you, okay?" Hollie: "You hate everyone, Kim." Kim: "You're one of everyone.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

If you don't like the news go out and make some of your own.