Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.

We will not be caught in no man's land.

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.