To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

I think for a long time people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.