I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.

That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do for us.

Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.

I think everyone just goes to London and says like, oh I went international!