“England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.”

“Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!”

“I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.”

“I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.”

“I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.”

“I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.”

“I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.”

“I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.”

“I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.”

“I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.”

“If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.”

“I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.”

“In London, I take the Tube everywhere.”

“In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.”

“It's very tough when two creative people are together.”

“I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.”

“I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.”

“Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.”

“My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.”

“My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.”

“North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.”

“So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.”

“That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.”

“The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.”

“There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.”

“We lack rituals in this modern world.”