- About how she found her cottage in Suffolk: "I ended up at an estate agent's in Sudbury and the chap, knowing I was an actress and imagining that I had Elizabeth Taylor finances, brought out details of all these places that Paul Getty would have been happy with. I said to him: 'Now, listen. Most of my parts are played at the Royal Court or the RSC and I barely make enough to pay my parking tickets. What I'm after is something totally run down, something that no one else would touch.' - He said: 'Get in the car.' And he drove me here."
- I could have easily have become a nun, or a prostitute, or both.
- [on Samuel Beckett] Like many men the older he got the more attractive he became -- at least as seen through a woman's eyes.
- I'm not really interested in acting anymore. It's not the centre of my life. I always thought it was a bit of a flibbertigibbety occupation. (1996)
- Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
- [on Harvey Stephens, her co-star in The Omen (1976)] I wanted to strangle him. He really was a little devil.
- [on the death of Samuel Beckett] I'm like the canvas who has lost the paintbrush.
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