Some of the actors that I love most have challenged themselves throughout their entire career. That's my goal.
I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.