I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

All it takes is one small voice to make a difference." Thread

Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate.

If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.