I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives

When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry."

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.