I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

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

I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.