I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

Old-fashioned dating still exists. You’re either dating the wrong people or you are the problem.

It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

Religion is bad and drugs are good.

Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty: don't treat thirst with medications!

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

New York is who I am.

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."