It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

I'd never been content in America.

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.