I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

Hurry always empties a soul.

The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

Boys laugh at what they put girls through - but they won't be laughing when - they're wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.