I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

I like to write poetry.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

When you want to change the world, have you changed yourself lately?

Depression is not the lack of happiness, it's the imbalance of it.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.

Ice can kill as dead as fire.

Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.