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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our faith is built in the dark, in the valleys, and during the back-breaking battles in life.

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

Faces are the most interesting things we see

By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.