When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

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 think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.

The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.