An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.