I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.

All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.