I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.

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.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.