Kristin Scott Thomas is terrific. She has a career in France and a career in England: how cool is that? I wouldn't mind that.

I've been lucky with my friends, most of all with Debina. If it wasn't for her, I'd have probably given up. She encouraged and inspired me. Due to her I felt motivated to do my best for my career.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

If I could only follow one person on Twitter, it would be Heidi Moore. She's a financial journalist at NPR's Marketplace.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

Joan Collins was the best. She really could sort of pull it off, be really outrageous and never even flinch.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

I just realized I have probably spent more time in a strip club than Rihanna has, and that is saying a lot because she goes a lot!

With 'Nighty Night' series one, Oprah Winfrey's channel took it on, so she must have liked it.

We finished series four of 'Hetty Wainthropp', we were told there was going to be series five.

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

I like to do a bronze smoky eye with some lashes and a nude lip. That's my favorite look.

My own feeling on the consumer is that he - he or she looks at what it costs them to pay their bills every month as opposed to how much debt they have.

Mina loves Hawaii, and she goes there a lot for vacation.

One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean.

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.