I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big.

You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.

I have always been attracted to Australians and Australia.

In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.