I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.