I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

If you're in love with someone maybe you can show it too much.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.

I do have cellulite. I have it everywhere. From the neck down!

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.

When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave.