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" British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. "

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" But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. "

" I don't have technique because I never learnt any. "

" Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap. "

" When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. "

" If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights. "

" Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. "

" The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. "

" Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you. "

" Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. "

" If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. "

" We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. "

" London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared. "

" You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face. "

" My worst quality is impatience. "

" A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look. "

" What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together. "

" I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately. "

" I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups. "

" A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community. "

" The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable. "

" The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town. "

" Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that. "

" This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls! "

" We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. "

" I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. "

" Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything. "

" My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs. "

" The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not. "

" I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. "