I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Go within and release yesterday’s sorrow so you may embrace today’s joy.

I hate when you have to smile for me..so nice if you'd do that spontaneously.

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

It's a wonderful life and I love it.

You see somebody down, that's lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.

I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power