I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

A leaders job is to shepherd, not necessarily to always shine.

A healing heart has no time frame.

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.