I did say I don't feel as worthy as so many of the recipients ... He said he'd seen some of my work, which is amazing, and was a fan of Gavin and Stacey.

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight

Friendship is a door you will never need to knot on as you will always have a key.

A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

Money is a poor indicator of success.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.