English Quotes

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

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.

I need to learn every day.

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

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.

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

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

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 don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

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

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

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.

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

And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

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

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

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

What a heaven is love! O what a hell!

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.