(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least.

in a slapfight with Jesusmy face bleedsbecause no one cut their fingernails back then

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

Don’t complicate whatever is not complicated.

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.

Everything I do is for my people.