Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f -- off.'

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.

I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.

Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive on an everyday level. I don't think anyone has ever managed to tap that on the screen -- it would actually be too shocking.

What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.