For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it.

Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

Positive things happen to positive people.

Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

Love's a weird one, isn't it? I've never told my husband Graham that I love him. He's never told me either. I think it started as a bit of a joke. We just decided never to say it.

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.

No toys in the fish tank

You will be transformed by what you read.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.