I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.

It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.

If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

I use mainly products by Dermalogica. They have specialized formulas to target specific skin needs, which I like. It works well for my sensitive skin.

Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

When I'm filming I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

I think it is absolutely crazy in this day and age that I have to go through a trial and error method to see if my child is allergic to an antibiotic or peanuts. I should just know.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.