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

First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me.

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.

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.