I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production..

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it..

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes..

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..

I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation….

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning..

Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCapri….

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this….

I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily I've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvel….

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other.

I'm not beautiful; I clean up nice..

I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing….

I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly..

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very goo….

What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job is being able to inhabit worlds that y….

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 h….

English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one take out of fifty tha….

American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment….

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because….

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful..

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..