I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

You can be beautiful and young even as you get older. Keep an active life.

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.

She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are.

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

I feel like the world of Blade Runner makes more sense than this one.

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.