I felt quite a responsibility when I played Elizabeth I but nobody here remembers her! And then I felt a responsibility when I played Queen Victoria but not many people remember her.

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

I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

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

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.