I love going to other people's weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.

Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly friendship follows fast.

I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.

There's a 'me' in every 'you'.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly.

Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.