A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.