Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.

I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

I don't know that I've seen a lot of things I've done from beginning to end. I think I've seen clips and freaked out. I'm not somebody who watches things they've done.

Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.