I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!

I'm an addict for underwear.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

Who, being loved, is poor?

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

Aspire to be who you most admire

Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing

You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.