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I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.
Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.
I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.
It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.
There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.
I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.
I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.
You know, you have to allow life to play itself out, don't you? And one thing you learn is that it doesn't stop. It moves on.
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.
I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.
Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'
When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.
Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'
All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific.
[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other
Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude. I think people tend to get the two mixed up.
Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.
As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.
Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.
They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.
I can't say 'no' to an interesting role. I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'
I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.
I certainly think that he [Alan Rickman] was a kind of actor who needed to grow into his maturity to realize the potential, the huge potential that he had.
I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.
I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.
I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so liberating.
As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.
The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.
I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.