We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

I swim more or less every day.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.

I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

I'll always be here if you need me. I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.

I like a girl with natural beauty.

I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

The beautiful thing about faking a news show is the topicality is delayed.

I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.