I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

I want to come across as a positive person.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.

If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.

Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it.

In this business, you never say no to anything.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.

Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

I feel I can win the game without scoring 30 points.

Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.

I'm 23 years old and still wearing pigtails.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings.