I lead a very boring life.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Poverty is a culture cultivated by a poor mindset which can not evolve or accept possibilities of rising higher .

The government

The second hardest part about growing up is trying to figure out who you are. The hardest part comes after you've figured it out and the rest of the world wants to pull you in a different direction.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.