Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

My best friend is my husband.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

Happiness is a moving target.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.