It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

I think that period dramas just need zombies.

When people feel good, they look good.

I don't like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.

I really have been lucky because I've always had a very healthy attitude to my body.

Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted [knocks wood] career... I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone.