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

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

Unless you learn to lead, you will always be at the mercy of someone else to guide you.

Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.