It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they’re gone, and maybe it’s that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you’re near enough.

Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

I think everyone has the potential to be creative but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

What doesn't kill me just makes me stronger