For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I will never feel successful.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.