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.

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

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.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.