"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."

"Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever."

"Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe."

"I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that filler stuff injected, but I looked like a hamster with wodges of food in its cheeks, so I stopped that."

"I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's."

"I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway."

"The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring."

"I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school."

"I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem."

"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine."

"I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure."

"I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet."

"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."

"It's not that I don't like my mum's face; it's just that it belongs on her, not me."

"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."

"Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15."

"Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch."

"My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through."

"I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven."

"Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend."

"I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters"

"Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it."

"Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like."

"The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate."