I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

It was never the way she lookedalways the way she wasI would have fallen in love with her with my eyes closed.

The way you see me is the way I am.

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.

When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

I can ski out of my back door.

That's what the news is: You turn on the news every night, whatever you watch, and you're expecting to see things that you didn't know happened. And that's not what it is.

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.