My approach to jewelry has always been to keep it very simple, but if you want to wear something, make sure it is exquisite and lovely and will stand out.

Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.

I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

Whenever I've worn trousers or a suit, it always makes me feel sexy but effortless and confident.

I think, for me, the main thing is feeling comfortable.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.

There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.

Mark Strong is an amazing person. I just kind of enjoyed watching him. He is just so calm, dedicated, professional, and an absolute gent as well.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.