If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

My best friend is my husband.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

When you praise God in pain, it is preparing you for provision.

What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.

History teaches us hope.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.