People need to learn to take everyone as they are.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

Don't ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

Fine," he says. "Then I love you.