As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.

An awesome thing children need is a frank smile from a sincere heart

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

You just click your heels and think there's no place like being pwned.

Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there's a bone sticking out of their arm, I'm not interested.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.