I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

We all have our secrets

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

There are so many things that I would love to do. I'd love to do a drama. I just enjoy doing very different things.

I was talking to Alan Jackson. He had his second Greatest Hits album. He said, You don't ever get into this really thinking you're gonna make it.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

Be kind to each other.

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

Truth happens to an idea