In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

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

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.

Curiosity is the art of creativity.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

It was His gentle voice who calledand sent His angel pain to guide me, through the long ‘n dusty corridors, and empty hallways of my soul.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

The journey is its own reward.

The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.

A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.