I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey, ' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.

It is impossible to remain at the bottom forever, if your thoughts and beliefs are in total agreement with the possibility of you residing at the top.

My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

I imitate everyone except myself.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.