The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

In a great romance each person plays a part the other really likes.

Don’t lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening.

Money takes our minds off God.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey, ' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

My dog is so old, she now has a lot of cats.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Do what makes you happy, think later.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.