I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Order is heaven's first law.

The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore...especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

This has been a covert preparation for an overt operation." - Rory in NEVER GO ALONE

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.