My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

I like to write poetry.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

All of my life I wanted be something. I guess now that I am, I don't want to be.

Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.

The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.