My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

I hate being a teenager.""Why?""Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.

Not being boring is quite a challenge.

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.