But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.