THEY SAID WHAT?

“I take a lot of trains, so I love reading on the train. I get really annoyed when there are no delays, because I just want to keep reading and finish my book”

- Broadcaster Zoe Ball who says she reads to escape from what is going on in the world.

“I’ve never cried while filming, but I suppose I cry more easily nowadays. Well, tears don’t pour down my cheeks, but I blinked hard on November 11”

- Sir David Attenborough, BBC

wildlife expert.

“I am very scared for Matt. I don’t know where they are taking him or what will happen now. Our nightmare has gotten even worse”

- Daniela Tejada, below, wife of PhD student Matthew Hedges, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the UAE for spying - an allegation denied by the Foreign Office. “In this country you’ve got Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, the greats. They are paving the way for you so you can cut a path yourself”

- Australian actress Nicole Kidman, 51, who said she found it difficult to find rewarding roles as an older woman.

“She’s pretty much like me, doing everything wrong and just messy, which I definitely am. So I just loved it. I love playing flawed characters like that, because I think we all are - some more than others. It was exciting to play that role”

- Actress Sheridan Smith who plays a cleaner with a gambling

addiction in a new ITV drama.

“We are living in a horror movie”

- Singer Fleur East on being a contestant in I’m A Celebrity.