If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

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.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

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

You have to embrace getting older.