The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'