"If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss."

“People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.”

“Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.”

“Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.”

“I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.”

Source : "Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”

“If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.”

“It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.”

“We’re all women. We all have the same wonderful situations happen to us, the same horrific situations. We all get our hearts broken.”