I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through one World War, I have lived through the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. I have experienced what I never thought I would have experienced, which is a pretty workable peace in Northern Ireland, and I experienced a unified Europe - until the Conservative government got its hands on the idea that in order to appease a few back-benchers they would hold a referendum, what a disastrous idea.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.