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"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."

"It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people."

"I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did."

"My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want."

"I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard."

"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."

"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around."

"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
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