I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

It's not that I'm angry

If ever you want a rainbow in your home, go to Sandwich Glass Museum, and let them put one in your heart too.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Bear patiently with a rival.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.

The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Power without abuse loses its charm.