The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Debate is so much better than denial.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.

When I was in elementary school I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.