My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

The best form of saying is doing.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

My basic advise is don't lose money

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.