So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

I live quite an unsettled life.

Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.

The emptiness made her insides ache.

imagine there's no heaven..." he said. "Apparently someone is taking that personally.

Wow. Look at the lines in your face, Missy. It's like your bitterness just dug in and stayed.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.