One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

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.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

All we know is what were told.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

My favorite...continues to be Kevin Zraly's 'Windows on the World'.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

The game must have been past my bed-time.