You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.