People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.

One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it