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" I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself. "

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" It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life. "

" Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody. "

" Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you. "

" Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life. "

" In the adverts, I look like I do because 150 people have spent seven hours making me look dazzling. That's not me at all. "

" Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three. "

" There have been times in my life when I have felt like I can't go out without my makeup on. But now I just put on some dark glasses so people can't see if I look rough! "

" My beauty regime is very simple. I just take my make-up off before bed. And oh, I always put moisturiser on. But that's about it, apart from a bit of soap maybe. "

" If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films. "

" My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it. "

" There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way. "

" Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control. "

" I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush. "

" The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met. "

" It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff. "

" I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself. "

" I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it. "

" 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values. "

" I'm a size 12 and I'm very happy with it. "

" I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset. "

" I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up. "

" I worked in McDonald's, but I didn't mind it. You got free cheeseburgers. I love eating a bit of junk food. "

" We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me. "

" I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends. "

" I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do. "

" My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live. "

" I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic. "

" When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden. "

" I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper. "