Samantha * Quotes

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

I can't act without music very well.

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

I love all things Christmas.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.