I don’t put off any time with my grandchildren. I don’t put off a thing.

If you’re going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn’t Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you’d opened your eyes wide enough.

In fact, I’ll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

And so I was very grateful that I didn’t do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

I’ve done so many movies that when I see them I don’t really watch them.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

I don’t want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore.

That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about… ‘hazel eyes’. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.

It was tremendous fun while it lasted, but I didn’t want to get into a rut, and I think there was the danger of this, had I continued.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you’d...

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Relatives cannot help you in the studios,” she says. “You stand or fall by your own efforts.

I don’t want to marry again. I did that.

I didn’t want to throw like an actress.

The odd thing for me is the focus on looks which happened in the States. I’d always felt that was not going to be a strong point.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had...

As an actor, particularly because I’m – I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

That’s what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

I think – I think I’ve always been kind of – I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and...

I’m told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

When really you’ve gone to drama school and rep and then you’ve come to London and gone to auditions and you’ve worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

But I don’t want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don’t like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven’t become a...