What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

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 don't like it when it stings, ' he said. 'Nobody does.

Heaven is a warm cat and a good book.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

and silence is the golden mountain

This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.