Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!
The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.
My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.
I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.
I wrestle every opportunity with gusto.
I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.
I've been on the 'Logan' movie set, which is a 300-strong crew of basically men. They had arms thicker than my thighs stuck together.
You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
I've been led by my nose all my life and tried to make perfume by boiling sugar water in jam jars and stuffing them full of gardenia and rose petals when I was growing up in Swaziland.
The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
My parents were divorced when I was 11, and it made such a profound impression on my life that I suppose I thought that by not getting married, you could avoid your life being carved in two.
Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.
Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!
Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'
Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.
