I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Debate is so much better than denial.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?

It's not that I'm ahead of my time, it's more that the world is running late

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating