My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.

I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

You don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.

Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.