I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

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

I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin?" And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them.

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

The only real failure is the failure to try.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.