I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

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.

...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

The Wrods We Sepak Ifnlucne Waht We See Ifnlucne The Atconis We Tkae Gvies Us The Rseluts We Get...The Words We Speak Influence What We See Influences The Actions We Take Gives Us The Results We Get!

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge

Don't want to turn into mini-me.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.