I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.