There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

I've never seen an episode of Downton Abbey.

I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.

Im a size 12 and Im very happy with it.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.

God is in control of every circumstance.

We only have one desire, which wants to manifest in thousands of ways, like a flower who blooms in billions of shadesto express her only one desire...to be beautiful

The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

You were never what I wanted to forget.

There are no mistakes.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.