I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

The secret of all greatness is knowing what to do with time.

Everyone is part of you.

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Israel’s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.