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We lack rituals in this modern world.
I have a terrible sense of direction.
In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
It's very tough when two creative people are together.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'
I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a family, that sort of thing.
I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.
Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.
By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.
I love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only have a chance to do that once or twice in a career.
As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky.