Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.

Let us be the wind of love that touches every heart and blows away all of the misery and sadness.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.