I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

Single by choice, just not my choice.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

We are not the end of the gospel; God is.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.

Familiarity breeds contentment.

As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.