Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.

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

I have a lot of people to thank and I'm going to be one of those people that tries to mention a lot of names, because I know just two seconds ago my mother and father went completely berserk and I'd like to give some other mothers and fathers that same opportunity.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

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.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.