Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

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

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.

When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.