Fine. You stay here. I shall return when I’ve found food. But when you all faint from hunger later don’t think you can just feed on me.

What should I say? ‘Well, the murder was a little upsetting, and the fire did worry me a bit. I was nearly date-raped and my ex best friend is crazy. But, hey, at least I’m making an A in History’?

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

All the answers i seek lie within me, but inner quietude is mandatory before those become loud and clear.

It's difficult to become someone you don't know at all. It's difficult, indeed, to become yourself.

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

I'm not a make-up person, but I love wearable products that are easy to use, with fun packaging

When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.

I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.