I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

I think that period dramas just need zombies.

When people feel good, they look good.

I don't like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves.

I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.

I really have been lucky because I've always had a very healthy attitude to my body.

At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they'll come true, but I didn't do that.

No. In my eyes, she was most beautiful because at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.

Greater than atomic power is the power of love. Alas, we use it so sparingly!

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

Tell me about the rains that washed and wore you down. About the travels you took to find yourself and how you left a part of you in every place, yet somehow always came back more complete.