"Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone."

“I love Botox, I absolutely love it. I get it minimally so I can still move my face. But I really do think it's a savior.”

“Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much,”

“Longevity is a huge factor in becoming separate from the mass of people that are just starting, or don't have any friends in the same realm, or don't really have the foundation. So it's good and bad, it's easy and it's hard. It's really what you make of it. Because if it's truly something that you really enjoy and obsess over, then waiting 10 years or waiting 30 years shouldn't be that big of a deal for you. As you get older and as you work harder, you see further down the road.”

“Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.”

“No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.”

“Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.”

“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.”

“I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols, they were just doing their jobs.”

Source : "Vera Drake: Imelda Staunton about Mike Leigh". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. February 9, 2005.