It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.