Nigella Lawson

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.

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

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.