The theater is magical and addictive.

Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a character are in relation to those others who are working with you within that scene.

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.