It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me.

Words are just words, Who they come from gives them Relevance, And this Relevance gives them the Power to Hurt you.Make those who Hurt you Irrelevant.

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.