It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

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.

It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic

Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.