The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.

Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her through the biggest trial of her life - when she lost Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . . Go it old girl. You've done it well.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings