“I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that...” — Miranda Richardson Quote

“I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.”

“If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.”

“I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.”

“The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.”

“It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.”

“You can't please all the people all the time.”

“Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?”

“I was always good at fixing things growing up. I wanted to work on boats. That was what my dad did.”

“I tend to think that the rising tide lifts all boats, and the folks that are passionate football fans in the D.C. area, whether it's pro or college, I think will have an interest in the XFL.”

“Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.”

“My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in an office preparing the charts for the boats and the submarines before they headed out.”

“I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.”