Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.

Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one.

So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.

I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it's fun to do 'Manglehorn,' where I'm playing somebody who's very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don't want to bore myself.

Pixar has the integrity to not rush.

I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.

It is difficult to love people; even when you do love them, it is difficult to know how - how to express it.

When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.

Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary.

Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year.

I love an elasticated waistband on holiday. I look like the before photo of a makeover. I don't care and no one can see me.

I've been known to use white noise during fussy times as well as to help a baby sleep.

There's a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it's never horrible. I'm not a soap villain who gets spat at.

I have always been really scared of trousers, they aren't flattering.

I'm not afraid of how I look in the mirror.

With any body shape it's important to buy the right size and not be dictated to by size you think you are. Try on a bigger and a smaller size in the shop and see what fits visually. If you do have to go up a size, cut the label out, it's just a number!

When I'm home, I never take work calls. If I'm at work, I work; if I'm home that's it, I'm home.

People think I work a lot more than I do. I think because you're in people's living rooms every day they're like: 'Oh my God, you're always on the telly,' but it's like, 'Yeah but you always have to go to work every day nine till five whereas I finish at 12:30 P.M. and then I'm home.'

When I'm interviewing on the sofa for 'This Morning' it just feels like an intimate chat. Yes, there can be a producer talking through your earpiece but it all becomes second nature after a while.

I really like Charlotte Tilbury and Burt's Bees lipsticks - so moisturising!

I was first spotted for a modeling career and there's no talking involved in that - the thought of doing any sort of public speaking at that time would have terrified me. So that was something I sort of had to learn.

If I do something, I commit. Otherwise you spread yourself too thin.

Skinny jeans don't work on someone, like me, who's a size 12 and has got child-bearing hips.

I always notice a difference in my skin when I drink lots of water and, of course, get plenty of sleep!

I think the fact that we don't usually see 'normal' sized women on television has something to do with the reaction I had. I am quite tall - I am 5ft 8in and a definite size 12 - but you know this whole debate about my revealing too much flesh on TV has been blown out of proportion.

When I first started in telly, I had a lot of negative comments... but then I suddenly realised I couldn't be anyone else and actually the bits where I mess up or I'm just me seem to be the things that work.

Without sounding like a right idiot, my mum and my dad are my role models. They devoted everything to my sister and me - and stayed together through everything. It wasn't because they never argued - of course they did - but they worked through it and made their marriage work.

I'm a big fan of John Nettles.

I actually avoid talking about my diet and exercise regime because I have interviewed so many people affected by eating disorders and I know that some people in chat rooms can really fixate on other people's diets. I just can't contribute to that.

I'm quite active and I try not to let the way I look be the main focus because it's not the most important thing.

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

I know how to dress my figure, so I stay looking good by wearing the right clothes.

You wouldn't expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.

After doing kid's television on CBBC and messing around with eight and nine year olds, there was a period of three years in the middle of that when I wasn't doing anything. I was working as a receptionist and in a pub; I was a cleaner and all sorts of things. All life has its ups and downs.

My first day of 'This Morning' was pretty wow, and I think that was just because it was a big huge deal for me. I'd always said 'This Morning' was my dream job so to actually get it and actually be standing there and saying 'Hello, welcome to 'This Morning'... ' that was a big moment.

I love cooking and having people over and it means you don't have to get a babysitter.

I like to let my skin breath as much as possible on my days off, when I don't have to wear full or heavy make-up. So I just apply it as a moisturiser, knowing that it's going to even out my skin tone and give me SPF 15 coverage, too.

I like an eyeshadow stick because I can just wallop it on, smudge it in and you're done!

Everybody thinks I wear fake tan but I hate fake tan! Never been able to get on with it. I'm always linked to different fake tan brands and it's nonsense because I've probably had three fake tans in my life.