In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

People need help, advice and love, not websites telling you how to lose your last pound, or scantily clad, deeply anorexic celebrities parading around flaunting their golden bones.

No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single. It was inevitable... Thankfully, I proved people wrong.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.

I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

Yeah, I fancy women big time... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

He who knows ignorance well shall least know understanding well

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Nothing kills a CEO's credibility faster than legal, regulatory, and/or ethical questions.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.