Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.