You can't please all the people all the time.
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.
I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.
You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.
I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.
I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.
And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.
It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.
If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
