I really believe in the characters I play.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.

Venison and venery defeated me.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.