The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

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.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Walls don't fall without effort.

They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

We had a saying that the fun stops at one.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.