There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a ….

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm exp….

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - ….

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..

I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch '….

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them..

I am for peace and all kinds of ways because the total reality is that you never quite, at least in my experience, you never quite get to be peaceful….

I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, whe….

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character,….

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-c….

I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom b….

I used to look out the window of my bedroom as a kid, and there were these stars that, in my mind, made a big "A" in the sky. I thought my destiny wa….

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..

When I was doing Shakespeare and I had spent a lot of time and effort in trying to become a great Shakespearean actress. That was how I started my ca….

There's a heartbeat in any country that carries on regardless - at least in Europe. That's what worries me about America, because I'm not sure what t….

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking ….

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 experi….

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..

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….

Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive on an everyday ….

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..