My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.