Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, ‘She did absolute depths of agony really well.’ I’m not, however, an unhappy person. – Lesley Manville
I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance – well, I cannot think of any other term – an airhead of the first degree. – Kathryn Lasky
I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It’s all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it’s so far away from what I usually do. – Louise Jameson
Never guess a woman’s age. Never guess a woman’s weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she’s due. – Lyle Lovett
I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she’s interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn’t need to add things. – Karen Gillan
A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection. – Karolina Kurkova
When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn’t afford a ticket. – Lauren Bacall
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity. – Muhammad Yunus
Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on. – Jools Holland
I’m a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn’t need to be discovered at all – she’s widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished – I wish she were a household name. – J. R. Moehringer
You can really call Irene Dunne ‘The First Lady of Hollywood’, because she’s the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen. – Leo McCarey
Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters. – Judith Tarr
I go outside, and I’m wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, ‘What’s wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.’ – Kristen Stewart
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre. – Leon Askin
But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them. – Keegan Allen
Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn’t like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she’s the biggest athletics fan out there. She’s a real expert, and she’s got all the heptathlon books. – Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Laura Bush, it seems, is used to cast a softer light on her husband, who then proceeds to reverse whatever she’s just promised. – Molly Ivins
After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, ‘She’s the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we’ve got to handle this with kid gloves. Don’t go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you’ll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.’ – Louie Gohmert
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison’s early books a lot. But she’s really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. – Leslie Fiedler
Gemma Arterton in ‘The Master Builder’ at the Almeida – she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life. – Luke Evans
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. – Michel de Montaigne
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine… before she realizes she’s reading. – Maya Angelou
She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her. – Lizzie Andrew Borden
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. – Louise Erdrich
Flannery O’Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn’t understand what she was doing. I didn’t see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff. – Karin Slaughter
