I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

I swim more or less every day.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

Silly me, Mr. Butterfingers.

I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.