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

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

" There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible. "

" 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. "

" I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things. "

" 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. "

" Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

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

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

" Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes. "

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

" I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street. "

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

" I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year. "

" 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. "

" If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre. "

" 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'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. "