There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself..

Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some..

I always knew I would adopt. Always..

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate..

I'm not a queen of anything, you know..

I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best.

I have more confidence than I ever have before..

Be classy. Anything but trashy..

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else..

No one can go back, but everyone can go forward..

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time..

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable..

My Precious, my Precious..

When I say nothing, I say everything.

Any woman is sexual, absolutely..

It's also wonderful to be back with my great friend and ally, Chancellor [Angela] Merkel. As I reflect back over the last eight years, I could not as….

It's over. Absolutely, completely, eternally over.

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you..

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that..

It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret]..

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play..