There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

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.