All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

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 can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.