My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

I don't know which was worse the cost of the bridesmaid dress or having to wear it.

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

I suppose I should make a little apology to Cyndi - although I'm not taking the blame for this - because I was the one who did say Cyndi had won.