Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies..

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art..

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it..

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite..

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be..

I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I love Lady Gaga and the performance of sexuali….

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he wa….

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives..

I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottl….

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know..

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me..

It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get ….

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology..

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'.

It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only….

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be..

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context..

It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry o….

I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't belie….

You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] w….

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being y….