Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

You cant please all the people all the time.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

Extraordinary people always inspire others.

I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else.

People want to know who is coming into their country and they want to control their own trade and various other things.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

I think it's better to just say nothing at all than to just send two words.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?