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

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

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.

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.

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.

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

Speak kindly to with adult women as you would to your mother.

Those were the kind of kisses to keep a man awake at night, wanting more. Now, shall we drink this excellent wine and get on with the rest of the tour?

We love because it's the only true adventure.

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

Only a new seed will yield a new crop.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.