Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?