There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

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.

There's no doubt in my mind that he wants this and that he loves you, Sam, but sometimes even the strongest feelings in our hearts can't silence the demons in our head.

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Eating wholesome foods and getting plenty of sleep is crucial for me.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.