“I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.”

“At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.”

“I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.”

“I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.”

“I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.”

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”

“Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.”

“I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.”

“Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together.”

“The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.”

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”