Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

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.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

Even, if we aren’t rewarded, we will do the good work.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

We have spent, right now, $6 trillion in the Middle East, and America is falling apart. It's not right.

My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.

I think just being a '90s kid - I was not a Backstreet Boys girl, I was definitely into NSYNC.

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?