THEY SAID WHAT?

“Pregnancy and childbirth and being a mother has helped me to know myself more and know my strengths and my weaknesses. It has definitely changed the way I look at my job, because when I am leaving my house and leaving my children to go to work there is a new kind of purpose to it”

– Liv Tyler, above, who said she once considered giving up acting

“We can’t avoid the torture that these men went through. We can’t avoid the executions that the people around these men suffered”

– Game of Thrones star Kit Harington, on the forthcoming drama about the Gunpowder Plot

“My post-two-children stomach. It looks like a relief map of Africa”

– actress Meera Syal on what she most dislikes about her appearance

“I can’t describe the feeling when you’re waiting in that spotlight for your name to be called. It’s something that I became familiar with on The X Factor, but it still makes me sick”

– singer Alexandra Burke on appearing on Strictly Come Dancing

“Reckless, mindless and downright dangerous. It makes a reality of Hillary Clinton’s prophecy that putting Donald Trump into the White House would create a real and present danger to world peace”

– shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry on Mr Trump’s decision not to certify the Iran nuclear deal

“I thought when I was 41, I would be married with kids. Well, to be honest I thought I would be married with weekend access”

– comedian Sean Hughes, who has just died