I don't like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.

The only real failure is the failure to try.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

There's nothing good about being my age.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.

You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.

For four years we've been cooperating exhaustively