I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.

Be positive and laugh at everything.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.

I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.

Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

I love vintage, but it's so expensive now.

Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.

God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

Fulfilment does not mean our difficult emotions disappear

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Taking positive control of your daily thoughts is the only way that you can discover your true self.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.