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

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

War makes early risers of us all.

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!”

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.