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I need to learn every day.
Never fall out of love with life
Work certainly does help fill a void.
There's nothing good about being my age.
There are very few things that surprise me.
The theater is the thing I love doing most.
The only real failure is the failure to try.
I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.
Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.
I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.
We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.
I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.
I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.
I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.
People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.
I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.
It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.
I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs.
Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.
This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.
Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.