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" There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down. "

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" People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener. "

" There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time. "

" I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know. "

" When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable. "

" The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. "

" The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. "

" American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that. "

" I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones. "

" I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work. "

" When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient. "

" I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. "

" I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe. "

" There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there. "

" I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom. "

" I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV! "

" There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship. "

" I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that. "

" At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time. "

" I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform. "

" The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which. "

" I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger. "

" I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art. "

" Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women. "

" Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?' "

" We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be. "

" I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress. "

" There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room. "

" It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. "

" I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up. "

" I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic. "