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

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.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.