You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

What is done unto people is also being done unto God

In America everything is fantastical.

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.