Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

Id like an omelet named after me.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.

I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.

Amy! Never underestimate the rare tears of man..because that's always a sign that he has lost hope, out of options and more dangerously has nothing to lose...

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

The past is another planet.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.