There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

All right, we need a way to get into the palace. Any ideas?""Ask nicely? Charge in? Fly? Wait, do you mean reasonable ones?

It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.

The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!