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.

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.

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.

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

For adventure is not outside a man it is within.

I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.