I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Debate is so much better than denial.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Let me not fear adversity.

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

For me, adoption was grief in reverse.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

I hate wearing suits and ties.

Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.