I don’t usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.

The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.