In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Debate is so much better than denial.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.