Single by choice, just not my choice.

A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

Indistinctness is my forte.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.