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You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.
Doing cinema is not about watching yourself
Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.
What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.
I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.
I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.
I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.
You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
It's sort of fun. If someone's eyeballing you, it makes you feel good.
You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.
I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.
One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.
You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all
A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.
For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?
Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.
I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'
I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.
If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.
To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.
I could have been a superstar in America - I was certainly taken out there. But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.
My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.
I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.
I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice
I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.
I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice.
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.
One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.
I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.
My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me.
I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young.
There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.
I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.
If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.