Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Where does one run to escape from feelings?

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you it's a kind of an environmental thing.

I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

You're my best friend in the scene and together we can make sense of what's going on by being Together.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Why is youth so short and age so long?