People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

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.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

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.

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.