I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.