I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

Young women who want an education will not be stopped

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.

The food you eat can be either the safe & most powerful medicine or the slowest poison.

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.