Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

It’s like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.