Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

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

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.