Actress Quotes

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go t

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

The way sci-fi works, you can never die.

My own style is one of not much effort.

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.

I'm not very glamorous.

I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

I used to be absolutely addicted to the gym and I do still love it.

I only unwind at facials and massages.

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.

I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.

I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

I appreciate individualism.

I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.