The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
There’s nothing good about being my age.
I get sillier as I get older, so I don’t know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I’ve been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it.
I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
The only real failure is the failure to try.
I have no control over a film. I don’t know what will be left on the cutting floor.
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
There are very few things that surprise me.
In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it’s an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.
And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before – except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal – full of the things you love most.
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature’s beauty.
I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
The theater is the thing I love doing most.
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are – maybe not all of them. But it’s up to you to put in the amount. It’s up to the director to nag you until you get it right.
I’ve always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I’ve done. Mainly because I don’t do it well. But it’s like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.
People seem to have this idea that I’ve always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.