I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

Whenever the opportunity exist, we must give our very best.

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

I either run or try to play basketball every day.

I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor.

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.