I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

My life has been so fortunate. I have had most extraordinary good fortune in my life. I sort of put it into three categories, the three major stepping stones. One being London Hippodrome theater stage debut when I was 12, when it started my career. The second being going to Broadway. And the third going to Hollywood. Each one of those happened under the most extraordinary circumstances.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.