Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

As you awaken to the new day, put your hands to your heart, breath in and say: I am loved. I am love. I love, I love, I love.

If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.