Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche..

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late ….

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively..

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the….

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet..

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way..

I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television a….

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles..

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show..

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum..

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to..

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful..

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind o….

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism..

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative..

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women..

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated..

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about..

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction..

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping..

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very har….