I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed..

I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very gr….

Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm ….

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly succes….

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director..

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered ….

I find it very difficult to do anything on my own now because people recognize me. This has never happened to me before because I haven't really done….

I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't e….

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you'….

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are..

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh toge….

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad..

My kids are really learning everything from scratch. It's our job to be their tour guides and camp counselors and orientation people. That's a weird ….

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class..

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty..

There are responsibilities which are parental responsibilities and those are the types of things we prepare the next generation for, but no one tells….

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be..

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely..

I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I….

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impress….