Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.