I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you just say 2:30?

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.