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" If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be? "

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" Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood. "

Looking Forward

" I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think. "

" I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'. "

" I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun. "

" I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces. "

" I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it. "

" I was a real art freak when I was a teenager. "

" As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it. "

" If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I think what's important is if someone is sexy. "

" The benefits of feminism for someone like my husband are fantastic. He can stay at home with the kids, he can take them to a park, he does the school run. "

" I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours. "

" Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now. "

" The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself. "

" What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself. "

" If I were in politics, I'd make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It's a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of. "

" America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to. "

" You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam! "

" I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it. "

" I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better. "

" I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. "

" I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it! "

" I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here. "

" Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be. "

" To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends. "

" You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.' "

" A script is only as good as the director who's making it. "

" When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born. "

" My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent. "