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We all need somewhere where we feel safe

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

Why do we wear them? They're so painful.

My worst quality is impatience.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

Without the ice, the earth will fall

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

I ask Laurie if 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.

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.

Piracy is our only option.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together.

I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

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.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

(On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.

Up 5.15 a.m. thinking, packpackpack. I appear to have accumulated more things. How did this happen? I haven't shopped. Think my bath oils have bred.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

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!'

Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

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.

Sense and Sensibility signs litter Devon
arrows with S & S on. Whenever Ang [Lee] sees a B & B sign he thinks it's for another movie.

When you need me, but do not want me then I must stay. But when you want me but no longer need me, I have to go

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.