I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.