Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.