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 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.

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.

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.