Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

You can't just make me different and then leave

You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck

One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.