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 did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'