I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.

I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

Follow your dreams, because your dreams won't follow you.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

If I had a dream show, I probably shouldn't even mention it in this climate, but it would be like a kind of Fix It show.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.

Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

Fire opens the gates of victory.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!

It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.

If I go a little over the top sometimes, don't worry; That's where all the sunshine is.

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)