I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

I've been told I make a very good brew.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

The key to every human heart is love.

You have filled every fibre of my soul and the spaces in between

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.

The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.

A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.