I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

Single by choice, just not my choice.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

I don't lift weights. I do fitness exercises to stay strong.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.