It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

Dreaming of getting you I loosed everything Cheerfulness of smile And all the dreams of life

He is all fault who has no fault at all.

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it!

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.

Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.