I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?

What engenders hatred towards the Sharia? When people find their basic needs are not being met, then people just see it as unfair.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

Your ability to make things happen is what makes you different

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.