Some people will never change.

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

The modern world is filled with failed relationships.

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

A life without a dog is a mistake.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.