ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.