The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

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.

Don’t fellowship with people around you alone, explore and reach out to more people

A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best-which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that success found me.

Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

Religious freedom is foundational for our country, and we must lead on religious freedom as an example in America.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.