Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

I'd never been content in America.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.