It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.
Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
We need a continuing presence in space.
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds, together with the yelping and barking of dogs, are the only noises that reach one through the depths of the upper air. The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. Human beings look like ants along the white lines that are highways; and the rows of houses look like children's playthings.
With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.