I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

I couldn't be more blessed.

The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

Being outspoken has always gotten me into trouble. I'm just this little thing and then all of a sudden it comes out.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.