You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I've never had my heart broken.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.

Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.