One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
The only real failure is the failure to try.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
Never fall out of love with life
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.
Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
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 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 need to learn every day.
There's nothing good about being my age.
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.
I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.
Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.
Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.
