I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.

Every time I wake up I have this huge dreadlock in the back, and I don't know why. It's not like I sleep like a maniac or anything. It gets knots out really easy, and it's handy.

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

I don't really like the whole pancake look.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

I can have an androgynous quality.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like to look like Karen Elson - she looks good pale. I feel like I look a bit washed out.

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan. I try to eat fruit and be healthy. If I'm feeling a bit sickly, I usually get a good spray tan.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

I think there's always room to grow.

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.