I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.

I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.

You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.