I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

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.

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?

You don't need to have the whole world in your hands in order to live a very fulfilled life.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.