I can't stand Bob Dylan.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.

I know bugger all about golf.

It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.

I usually sleep ten to eight hours per night. I sometimes also have a nap in the afternoon.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

You either are a good director or you're not.

The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

With all my films, the pace is not very fast, and so people get bored with them and comment that they're just people talking in rooms and all that.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

I have gone through some bad times with my own business. At one point, I was working my socks off, driving, delivering, baking. It was hard, hard work. But I worked through it. Running your own bakery is hard. I never came close to bankruptcy, but I had to cut back on staff.

I'm not a snob.

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Families in Illinois don't want lies and political mudslinging.

The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.

Shes like an earthquake in tiny human form breaking apart anything and everything in her way.

The real hero is the widow who garlands his photo frame with the same spirit that she showed while exchanging it on their wedding day..

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.