Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas sometimes ten years.

The first glass is for myself the second for my friends the third for good humor and the forth for my enemies.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then y'know that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

Well I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

During the Second World War evacuated to non-Jewish households I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.