When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

Its really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me Hollyhocks.

Size zero doesn't make you happy and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.

My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

The Constitution only guarantees the Nigerian people the human rights either in their preamble or substantive provisions in the country.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.