I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.

The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct

Let your infectious smile infect the whole world with love and joy.

No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle!

If you are ignorant about who You are, your Enemies are not

But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that I knew, but the parts of her that had come before me too.

Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.