“We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.”

The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.

The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.

The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.

Feisty women are my calling!

We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.

I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.

I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.

Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?

Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.

I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners – and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime.