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 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.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.