I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

Oh that looked painful, " called another Puck, a little farther down. "We really need to talk about your anger-management problems.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Juno MacGuff: [yelling through the house] Dad? Mac MacGuff: What? Juno MacGuff: Either I just peed my pants or um... Mac MacGuff: *Or*...? Juno MacGuff: THUNDERCATS ARE GO!

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

Prayer is the passport to peace.