My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.

Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.

I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.

This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.