Quotes

I was a novice as far as film was concerned. I'd been working for 20 years at the time, then all that happened. [In reference to Secrets & Lies (1996) and her Academy Award nomination.]

[on not having children]: It just didn't happen. I don't know if it's selfishness. It's the most natural thing in the world, what we're here to do, but I just wasn't brave enough to make that decision. Sometimes I wonder..."

[speaking at age 80] I've suffered most of my life from impostor syndrome. That's leaving me. I haven't got that quite so much anymore. We were very poor growing up, but my mum and dad always used to say 'You're as good as anybody else, and if you work hard, you can achieve it'. I've been successful, so I'm not struggling as I was when I was a younger actor.

I don't feel 80. When you're young and you think of 80, you're in a bath chair. But that's not the case, thank goodness.

My mum actually started life as a skivvy in a big house down in Kent, that's where she met my dad, actually, he was a chauffeur. She would work about three or four jobs a day to make ends meet. We were very, very poor growing up, very, very poor. My mum was a wonderful woman and I used to love listening to her stories of what life was like in those days.