If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

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.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.