When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.

I never studied. I was too afraid. I thought that if an acting teacher had said to me, "You know what, you're not good," I would not have gone any further. It was easier for me to justify going to an audition and getting rejected, maybe because they wanted somebody blonde, maybe because I wasn't experienced enough. I could live with that more easily.

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

When one person is enslaved, we’re all enslaved.

In my personal life I wasn't someone who cried easily, someone who was extremely vulnerable, you know, in that way that's constantly seeking out affirmation from other people. I've always been much more the person who took care of everyone else.

Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.