I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

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.

...you look at me like an emergency

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.