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

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.

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.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

All genuine learning is active, not passive.

Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.