I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Strict parents create sneaky kids.

God loves a prayer of action.

I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

The issues we address basically: We call for an emergency jobs program to address the emergency of climate change.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.