I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

My best friend is my husband.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.