I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

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.

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

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.

He groaned a little and pulled his mouth free, pressing it against her forehead, then her cheeks. "I was going to start a fire ---" He smiled down at her. "You did.

He missed two people: a) the girl she was

Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.