Without the ice, the earth will fall.
We all need somewhere where we feel safe.
I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.
I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can’t rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable.
Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, ‘If I were gay, you’d be the one.’ and I said, ‘I’m there!’
I ask Laurie it it’s possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I’ve never produced a movie.
It’s such a cold night and it’s the only time I’ve actively been grateful for menopause. I’ve been entirely comfortable.
Don’t ever go on a diet. Just don’t. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.
I’ve never been on the cover of Empire. I’m very bitter. I’ve got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
My husband is here and I’d like to thank him, for many things, but first of all for pointing out that I had a big hole in my frock and then that my nipples were pointing in different directions. It’s good to have an expert there to help you with that sort of thing.
Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That’s what clowns are for. And that’s what I am.
You can’t be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren’t ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn’t working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.
We’ve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that’s easier. It’s much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain’t religion anymore. It’s stuff.
It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Why do we wear them? They’re so painful.
Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone – making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.
I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That’s what love is, in a way.
I have a lot of people to thank but they’re none of them here so I’m not going to bother.
I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I’m trying to communicate with people here and in America – in rich countries – about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.