On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'