I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

I flourish when I realize I'm already complete.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

Your heart is like glass, if it breaks, it's pretty hard to put it back together again.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.