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" 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. "

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" I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor. "

" Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right. "

" 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. "

" Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own. "

" Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. "

" Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned. "

" The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. "

" I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. "

" I wanted to be a set designer when I was young. "

" I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. "

" And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most. "

" I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late. "

" It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. "

" I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other. "

" People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth. "

" I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky. "

" I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea. "

" Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump. "

" 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. "

" I love being part of a company, and telling a story. "

" I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like. "

" It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. "

" My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl. "

" Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was. "

" The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it? "

" I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old. "

" In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all. "