An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

The greatest person to know in life is yourself. There’s no one who will treat you better.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

There is a tremendous rise now in feminine awareness and wishing for equality, equal opportunities.