I don't tend to spend the whole day in the personality of the person I'm playing.

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.

If your Ipad can do it better than you, then it is not a skill.

The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....

I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]

I like to win at everything I do.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!

If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.

No man knows himself as an original.