I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

I'm as famous as I want to be.

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.

I'm not a film snob.

I'm sick of environmentalism.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

There's nothing I won't attempt.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.