It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

Not everything in my life has been pretty.

The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.

Nothing is easier than fault finding.

Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.

Messi is the Mozart of football.