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.

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.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.