"Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me."

"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."

"To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive."

"If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow men, he ought to do what I am doing: pester them with letters."

"Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals."

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."

"There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?"

"Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization."

"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."

"I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen."

"I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales."

"I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage."

"I did important films when I was very young."

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

"When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene."

"You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today."

"I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring."

"I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film."

"It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone."

"I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done."

"I love to do very long and complicated scenes."

"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."