My best friend is my husband.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent

Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.

When I escape from my cage of conformity, I grow wings to fly in search of truth and beauty.

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.