While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

Single by choice, just not my choice.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.