Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

No one has the right to pee on your dreams!

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.