It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

My best friend is my husband.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung--or where men of good faith hold freedom dear!

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Why all this death?You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.

The only darkness you must fear is the the one that burns in your soul." *Chiki101*

You can't be born again, but you can change.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.