“As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig ...” — Ashley Jensen Quote

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.

I don't read tabloids. I just don't go there.

There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time.

I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.

I was about to get on a plane and take my husband away for his birthday, I thought oh I have tummy ache. I went into A&E and they said 'oh, you need surgery,' it was really weird - it was appendicitis.

My birthday, I don't really see it as a special day, to be honest. It's just another day for me.