I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.

I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I was being myself.

My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.

I was quite naughty at school.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!

Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

death had just shred a tear

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.