Its really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me Hollyhocks.

Size zero doesn't make you happy and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.

My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.

My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.

For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.