There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Debate is so much better than denial.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

[I like] Die Hard and Paul Verhoeven movies. S - t like that.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around.

He who laughs last, laughs best.