I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.

Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer.

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.