I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily I've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvelous, fantabulous bubble called the bubble of nomination. The minute the envelope is opened and your name isn't called out, the bubble bursts. And no one calls you up the next day to say, 'So sorry you didn't win,' or 'You looked gorgeous - nothing. If you win, you get about another 24 hours in that lovely bubble and then - pop - you are slightly wet all over from the bubble and realize that you have to get on with real life.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

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.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.