I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

I lead a very boring life.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan.

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

People talk to you and they try to convince you that they like what they do just because it sucks less than what they used to do... which sucked a lot.

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.

In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.