“Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly t...” — Lesley Manville Quote

Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

If the cost is lowering one's ego and a bit of money, so be it.

By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.

I wish everybody in the world liked me, but a lot of them don't. That's because my whatever - my weakness, my vulnerability, my ego, whatever it is.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.