Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came over, bowed down, and kissed my hand. It was the most fabulous moment - such a lovely gesture. He didn't say anything.

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 feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

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.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'