We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

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.

The longer the waiting, the longer the wondering.

Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.