The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart beats in my words.

Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized.

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?