I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.

It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

“I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?”

“faith in the intellect...is the only faith yet sanctioned by its fruits”

“Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.”

“If time is relative, doing new things actually makes us feel we’ve lived a longer life.” 

“We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?”

“The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.”

“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”

“Rhyming in itself is magic.” 

“Consciousness is a born hermit.”

“I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.” 

“Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.” 

“we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” 

“I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.” 

“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”

“There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.”

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”