The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.

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.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

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.