"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."

"The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

"Look the world straight in the eye."

"I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings."

"True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose"

"Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out."

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one "must "reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

"Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart."

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties."

"For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine."

"The mind is as big as the universe."

"One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief."

"I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything."

"Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts"

"On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things."

"I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix."

"I'm a very good sleeper."

"I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened."

"To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it."

"I love movies where people see the world from a different angle."

"I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors."

"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art."

"When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for."

"That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses."

"If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping."

"I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope we haven't produced a little serial killer!"

"I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!"

"I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life."

"I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word."

"I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts."

"I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had the luck to meet them. People who create their absolutely own world and are totally inimitable."

"Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat."

"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."

"Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once."

"Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle."

"I do think imperfection's underrated."

"I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up."

"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

"I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened."

"I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock."

"Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else."

"I always feel better after a good scream."