I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

Nature is the my best teacher.

Happiness is not a destination but the journey itself.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

A free and independent Britain is a blessing to the world.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.