Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.

The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.