I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique.

Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when I didn't want to do it. But I've lived with one for a while now and I guess I can put myself more in their position. You shouldn't be too sympathetic to them.

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