I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion. ☥

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?

Architecture is petrified music.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.