I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

As long as I am still interested and curious I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

Make the most of your sacred life on earth.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember

You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow." "Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.