I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.