I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

During the prayers of the day, there was one less “amen”.

Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.

The superman exists and he's American.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?