I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.