The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

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.

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.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.

We're equal before the law - if we pay the same amount

Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes.

Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?

Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.