I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

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.

Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge.

Above all, man must learn once again what he is and why he was created.

All good writers are weird. Proudly weird.

Oh! may each youthful bosom catch the sacred fire.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.