“I was an imaginative child and learning to read was like unlocking another dimension in my mind.”

We can all be a source of joy in someone’s life.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

We change the world with one random act of kindness at a time.

For the weekend, I say wash away your troubles with some bubbles. I’m getting a head start.

It’s what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That’s all and that’s the hardest thing.

I’m a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it’s supposed to.

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

We can always be a source of light to those around us.

I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.

A single thread of hope, can still be a powerful thing.

I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

When you’re playing a character in a book, there’s already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That’s where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.