"When I want to get away from it all I relax by watching a DVD...I love When Harry Met Sally. I escape into the romance of it all."

"Every now and then I get a little freaked out, because I`m thinking, `Should I feel this happy?` But I am a spiritual person and I do believe in destiny."

"Yes, I am glowing at the moment! I’ve been with someone for over a year."

"I think all women feel more beautiful when they’re in love – we just glow"

“Right now I’m dating someone and very happy, and that’s all I will say. I’ve learned from the past not to talk about it any more or it’s jinxed.”

"You realize maybe what you don’t want from a relationship. It’s practice for the real thing. We’re all at school, still learning."

“You’ve got to be right for each other. I believe that some men are right for you at the time, and that you learn a lot from each other."

I’m romantic to a point, but I’m a realistic romantic. I’ve got to believe in it enough to marry and have children."

"I’ve been happy, unhappy, everything. I do fall in love easily but if I was that much of a silly romantic, I’d have married and divorced them time and time again, and I didn’t."

"Most people have fallen head over heels once in their lives – I’ve been lucky enough for it to have happened three or four times."

“He’s lovely, and we’re having a great time.”

I felt depressed because I was playing a character who’d let herself go, and that state of mind affected me. I could feel myself getting down. One night, I decided to go out clubbing with the crew. Jason (Donovan) and I were the oldest there and I put on my skinny jeans, jewelry and make-up. When I came downstairs, everyone was saying how great I looked, how young I looked. I was like: ‘Well, I am still young!’”

"I’ve been fat and thin – now I’m just trying to be the weight that’s right for me."

"I’ve finally realised my hair color has been too dark. My natural color is mid-brown, and I’m trying to get back to that.As you get older, a lighter color is kinder on your face. I’ve colored my hair so often, I can now see a lot of red in it, which is the result of over-dyeing."

"I hate my eyebrows because the hairs never stay in one place."

I like the softness in my face, and that it’s heart-shaped.

"Real sexiness and real beauty comes from within, which is why so many super-skinny girls aren’t as sexy as they could be – because they don’t look happy with themselves."

"Sex is a lot less complicated than love.”

“I’ve had a couple of relationships which were based entirely on sexual attraction, and when the relationships ended, I walked away pretty unscathed."

"I hate a man to see my naked bum wobbling when I’m on my way to the loo in the morning, but I’ve not had any complaints!"

"I’ve learned to understand my body. I have a tendency to get bigger when I’m premenstrual – I can put on 7 pounds in a week then lose it afterwards."

“I work out three times a week at the gym and I’m careful about what I eat, but I’m never going to be much thinner.

"Maybe I’ll think about Botox, but not yet. I’m not that vain – at the moment.”

“I sometimes look at my stomach and think: ‘Liposuction!’, but so far I’ve done nothing except have my teeth fixed.

“Everyone thinks I’m this sweet, innocent girl who falls in love with men and then gets all cut up if it goes wrong – but that’s not always the case,” she says. I’m very much like a man about relationships at times – happy just to be in it for the physical side of things."

"I know these women in the industry who say, `I have a fast metabolism` and `I do eat`. It`s rubbish! Most of them don`t eat very much, work out like you wouldn`t believe and are paranoid as hell. I think the most beautiful thing about a woman is when she`s naturally gorgeous and doesn`t look like she`s trying too hard."

"I`m a typical hourglass shape and I have to keep my curves in check. I don`t want someone talking about my weight, I want someone talking about my performance."

"My first memory of my dad is him hanging me over a balcony. I remember just hearing the voices and feeling scared. I can remember hearing my mum reassuring him and him threatening to drop me if she didn`t do what he said. Up until about a year ago, I still thought I couldn`t talk about it and it`s only recently I stopped feeling like it was our fault."

"We are raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We invited some of the children along and we are raising money, as much as we can to try and make their dreams come true to and to make their months or days as pleasant as we possibly can."

"I`m a Taurean, so I`m very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years I`ve spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun. And, yes, if it all ended tomorrow and I could never afford another Gucci bag, then I think it`s safe to say that I`ve got enough to be going on with."

"I won an MTV movie award for Love Actually and landed a major role in a pilot show, but it was put on hold by NBC for a year, which left me treading water and missing what I felt were great opportunities for me in Britain."

"I`m a big Nivea fan. I slap loads on at night when my skin is dry and it works wonders"

"I`ve always been a hopeless romantic, searching for the perfect man to sweep me off my feet. But I`m more realistic nowadays. I still want to meet someone, but I`m not going to waste time fretting about it."

"I`m going to see what happens, even if that means having a different man on my arm every week."

"I came across Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner on a flight to LA and it`s been a beauty staple ever since."

"You don`t have to spend hundreds on expensive products to look good. I`ve got quite fine hair so I love to use L`Oreal Elnett Supreme Hold Hairspray, which gives it a volume boost"

"I get to snog Patrick Swayze! He`s a great kisser and he`s still so in love with his wife, which is another reason I like him so much."

"There are quite a few intimate scenes and one of them involves other ladies,"

"We got through it with an awful lot of laughter, especially when the director was shouting stuff like `More thrusting!` Maybe you laugh to cover the embarrassment, but it`s true there`s nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes."

"Ever since I was 18 or 19 the public seems to have been wanting to get me married off and that`s sweet, but you think `Oh God, give me time, let me have the adventure.`"

"Everything was always all right. I demanded a lot of myself and I came up trumps, and through My Fair Lady and the album deal and relationships working/not working, I just grew up. I realised I`m not infallible."

"If it hadn`t been for Liza I would still be really depressed. I met her at a time when I was feeling disillusioned and she really helped me. She made me believe in myself again."

"Everything happened so quickly, I`m still in a state of shock. One minute I was two months pregnant and going to be a mum, the next it was all over. I`m devastated. It`s just so hard to deal with."

I`ve spent the last four days snogging Hugh and he is a really good kisser - on the rigors of shooting Love Actually

"At the moment I drive a jeep, but I’m about to get a Range Rover"

"I always like to do things that I haven`t dipped my toe into before. Doing all the action shots, all in my Jimmy Choos, I was over the moon that I could do it all in those shoes!"

"There aren`t many roles where you`re working in a coffee shop one minute and you`re tied to a bomb the next. I thought it was quite a challenge."

"I love the attention you get from men - but they are attracted to the mystery of who you are, whereas women like you because they know exactly who you are."

"I want to feel the person I fall in love with is truly meant for me. It might not be the perfect packaging to the outside world but for me, emotionally, physically, spiritually, I need to feel that connection with somebody. I want to think `Oh my God! He`s the One` because that is the only thing that will make me compromise my other passion, my work."

"You can`t have a big ego if you want to play a real part."

"I love what I do but I look at it as a job. I go to work, and I come home. I have a very good life away from what I do. You have to be careful as an actress that you don’t end up living other people’s storylines and another person’s life. I’m really happy in my own skin now."

“The one great thing that came out of everything in LA was that I had some time to just really grow up and think about what I wanted."

"Now I’m in my 30s, I feel so much more confident. I’ll never be skinny but I’m a size 10, I weigh around 126 Lbs, and that suits me."

I don`t have a lot of spare time at the moment as I`m often in LA recording my new album.

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

Some men send me condoms and underpants. I`m not sure what they want.