You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Debate is so much better than denial.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

How can I die? I'm booked.

I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.