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" Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company - what a wonderful woman. "

" Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose. "

" 'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.' "

" Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are. "

" I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.' "

" I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun. "

" I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady. "

" I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret. "

" I like my own company. "

" I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen. "

" I'm not homophobic. I mean, who cares? You know the state of the world, and you're only here for about 70, 80, years, so why do people worry about somebody's sex life? It's bonkers, really. "

" I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like. "

" I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place. "

" I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think. "

" In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight. "

" Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life. "

" I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it? "

" I tell myself things will be different in a few years' time, but this is the most wonderful, golden time for me. I'm basking in the success of 'Tango', really loving it. "

" I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism. "

" I've accepted stuff even if it's a few lines, because I think it's better to be seen. "

" I've a very sweet tooth. Wish I didn't. "

" Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents. "

" My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see. "

" What I really want is an Oscar. "

" You don't feel old when you get old. "

" Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people. "

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