There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Stop searching yourself trying to understand why someone else treated you the way they did. The answer is not inside you; it’s inside them, out of reach.

It was – it’s always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are.

There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers – I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

I’m far, far, far from that. But of course, that’s one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if – you know, in the characters that you’re playing, even if you don’t.

When you get into the granny era, you’re lucky to get anything.

Give the present the gift of your full attention.

Today I think of myself as a ‘recovering pessimist.’ I know that optimism is not at odds with wisdom. It’s quite the opposite. I think of cynicism as cool but lazy, while hope is desperately uncool – it has sweaty palms and an earnest smile on its face. What I know to be true is that one hopeful person will accomplish more than a hundred cynics. Why? Because the hopeful person will try.