I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.

I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.Another life is never safely envied.

Why can’t I have my own life?!

Your intuition is the pilot's seat of your soul. If you don't trust it, you'll keep missing the most important of destinations in life.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.