At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit