I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

If you're comfortable with solitude, being left out is not a problem

If you don't feel you're the best, then you shouldn't be doing your job. No one else cares if you don't care about yourself.

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.