I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

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.

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

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.

True, but if it’s good it’s going be so very, very good.

You have to reinvent to stay fresh, to stay in the game

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And poor people do take advantage of that, also.