I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed.

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

Life is an occasion...rise to it.