9 Quotes by Polly Walker

The high level of meat and saturated fat consumption in the USA and other high-income countries exceeds nutritional needs and contributes to high rates of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and some cancers.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really.

Sometimes Italian fashion, especially in the summer, is bright and gaudy and tarty, so I'd be buying these bright pink and bright orange things, and when I got home, I'd just go, 'What was I thinking? I can't wear this!'

I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.

I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy a cookery book and take it to bed and read it.

She's hugely powerful. She should really be the emperor herself.

I have huge admiration for this character. A lot of people might consider her to be sort of evil or bad, but I think she's wonderful. She's very complex and she's just a survivor, doing what she's got to do.

It was cherry syrup, very sticky, very sweet, very cold. I wouldn't recommend it.

It's her currency. She's not a bimbo, not a playmate. She has an objective in all this.