I've been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, "Joel, I need to go to the London eye with my children and I want to look like a roadie from Lynyrd Skynyrd."

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

After having been confined to a television series - and it's a luxury job - where you can't play anything but one particular character for nine months out of the year, it will make you insane. It didn't affect me. I got out quick enough.

And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one