I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband, wishing that her perfect life would end.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.