I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.

Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Honey, I forgot to duck

Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy.

You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it