"When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient."
"Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be."
"All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap."
"Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies."
"The trick in life is learning how to deal with it."
"It's great to be queen!"
"There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down."
"We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be."
"I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe."
"I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous."
"I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger."
"I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones."
"Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks."
"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."
"Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate."
"I love photography, and I love the art of photography."
"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."
"It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way."
"I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform."
"It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it."
"I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness."
"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."
"The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women."
"I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great."
"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."
