What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.Look under the leaves and branches of convention.

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.

The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.