Danielle de Niese

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shopping.

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.