Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.