I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.

Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.