You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.