I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

If you change your dance steps you will change the dance.

Be your own solace

We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.

Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.