My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

Never declare fate your enemy

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl everybody else wants to know

A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Art is inside of you; express yourself.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

I love Krispy Kreme donuts, but doesn't the thought of cream that's crispy just churn your stomach?