Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

He grabbed my chin, pulling me towards him. 'In my dreams, ' he told me, his voice still as hard and cold as an iceberg, 'more interesting things happen. Things that involve the two of us'.

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.

It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

Acknowledge people, not their jobs.

To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.

Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.

I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.