I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story.
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?
At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.
