One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting..

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news..

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 true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies..

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard..

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, th….

I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy ….

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point..

I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no….

I just did adore Daniel - Daniel Radcliffe, who I had worked with before "Harry Potter" and spent a long time telling all the producers they had to s….

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all..

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything..

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age aroun….

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges..

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it..

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand..

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that..

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more..

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness.

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

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it..