Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

I have my moments, I just can't remember where I put them.

The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

We don't want wars even when we win.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car.

When I see that people are touched, and they feel solidarity with him, I say to myself, "I made a little change."

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.