I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.