I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

We are stuck on the obvious of this world, and it so fills our minds and our beings that there is little room for anything else, even if that "obvious" is merely a small part of what is real.

In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood.

But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.