When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

Without self-awareness, no changes can be made.

Behind a great success, there was a great failure

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.