I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

I like this marriage thing, because it's the best of all of us. We get to be the whole meal. The appetizer, the entree, the luxurious dessert... And yes, the peas and the carrots.

Sarah, insight doesn't produce change.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.

I think honestly that Michael [Gove] came to this decision[Prime Minister candidate] very late, that he needed to step up.

So why aren’t you living with your sister?” “She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said. “You make it sound like she broke up with you.

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?