In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.