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.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
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.
I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.
The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.
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 I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.
There are very few things that surprise me.
I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
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.
Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.
Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
I love being part of a company, and telling a story.
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
