I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

I loved being blonde. It's true, they have more fun, even when they're cannibalising their children.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

Come rain or come shine.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.