My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.

It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.

If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

I use mainly products by Dermalogica. They have specialized formulas to target specific skin needs, which I like. It works well for my sensitive skin.

Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

When I'm filming I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

Look around! People have faces with no smiles, as if they are carrying heavy baggage. Stop them! Give them a SMILE and see them Light up.

It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it.

Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

Place your faith not in the frailness of "Man" but in the power and glory of the creator and observe what happens next......

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.