I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.
We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.
And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.
Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They can mess up every day of the week through their whole careers, and this would be just fine, as long as they messed up in the same way as their peers.
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.