In London, I take the Tube everywhere..

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense..

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way..

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit..

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer..

We lack rituals in this modern world..

At the beginning of a long-running play, everyone's nervous and paces around in a panic and reapplies lipstick. After a while, you'll get long-runnin….

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am..

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s..

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..

It's very tough when two creative people are together..

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 wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing..

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood..

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation..

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 r….

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time..

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective..

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..

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before..