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I'm very pragmatic.
I've always thrown like a girl.
People think I'm totally crackers.
I am quite odd-looking in real life.
I've worked with so few female directors.
I think every work is hard in different ways.
I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.
There's always hope, and there's always despair.
I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.
I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.
I get scared of really simple things and not scared of big things.
Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.
I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.
Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.
As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.
I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.
There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.
Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.
When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself.
Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.
When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.
I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.
I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.
Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.
We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.
I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.
I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.
Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.
I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.
I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.
I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right.
My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.
David Suchet's Poirot was very charming, and, when I'm away in the U.S., those series remind me of being in Britain and being British on a Sunday night.
I can walk into meetings now and ask for equal pay, and the people will listen to me. They may not give it to me, but I will be listened to. That's huge.
I'm still wearing Doc Martens. I'm sure that you can have a baby and wear Doc Martens, but... Maybe I'll be the first person to give birth in Doc Martens!
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
'Venus,' which is a Roger Michell film - my first scene was with Peter O'Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.
People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.
When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.