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 think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.
It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it.
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.
The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.
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.
People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.
Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.
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.
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.
When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.
Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.
They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.
Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.