In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

Your life is the only journey, you travel unaided.

They had to call and callAnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.--From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.