At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

I love it when the team scores... the lads are always giving me stick because of it, but I'm just so happy I can't help it.

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.

It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.

I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.