Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Stardom can be very destructive – particularly if you believe in it.

Acting is the developing of one’s own personality, too, you know. That’s what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

Now that I’m over sixty, I’m veering toward respectability.

To me, the theatre – I don’t like to say it, but I’ll say it – is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.

If a play is good and you’re effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn’t last long.

I don’t want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

I’m not overweight. I’m just nine inches too short.

Security is when I’m very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.