The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.

I have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christmas miracle.

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

Laws are not made for the good.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.