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

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" 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. "

" Work certainly does help fill a void. "

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

" It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed. "

" 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. "

" I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 would hate people to think bossy is all I can do. "

" I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right. "

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

" 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. "

" Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage. "

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

" I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again. "

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

" I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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