Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others..

You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast..

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get ….

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it..

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates..

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us..

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is….

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself..

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She w….

'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the ….

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've go….

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't do….

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people..

I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To ….

What once made you safe now drives you insane..

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes ….

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door..

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet..

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other..

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun..