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"When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, "Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end."

"They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say."

"When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."

"Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart."
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"I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects."

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

"They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques."

"I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments."

"I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs."

"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."

"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."
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