I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

I have no regrets about my life.

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

Actually, guest star roles are really hard. Since you have to walk into a show where the cast has been working together for a long period of time, it can be a real challenge. And you have to feel your way around that while still making an impact on the overall effect of the show.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but looking back, it was also unbelievably stressful.

I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.

I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country and heavy metal. I love Marvin Gaye, John Legend, Al Green, Fat Freddys Drop, Sade, Grace Jones, Bazoo Bijou, Prince, John Lennon, London Grammar, Daft Punk, Dr John, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Gotye, and on it goes.

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards... he hardly said two words to me all day.

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

I'm still the way I've always been. Lots of hair and eyes, a bit Raquel Welch-ish.

Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.

My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap.

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.

When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

I'm obsessed with jackets.

If we Argentines dare to unite, we will be unstoppable.

Its the little things you do that make the big things happen.

I had no plans to be a director.

Meekness: uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Everything is just better in California the wine the food fruits and vegetables the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

The public bus is how I got to school every day.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.