I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.

The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.

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've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

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