I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
We lack rituals in this modern world.
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.
I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
At the beginning of a long-running play, everyone's nervous and paces around in a panic and reapplies lipstick. After a while, you'll get long-running card games or word games like Boggle.
It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
It's very tough when two creative people are together.
I have a terrible sense of direction.
I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
