It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs.

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I get to play a lot of hysterics.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.