Be original, be yourself, be you.

Some of [the lenders] may not be resident in Britain but there's nothing wrong with that.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.