In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.