I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

Elegance is a personality.

Never be afraid to your share your story.

I can't do that to myself...

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead