Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, “If I were gay, you’d be the one.” I said, “I’m there!”

I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.