Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life. ”

As an Englishwoman, you pick up a lot through osmosis. I've been watching the Queen all my life. But, yes, I did watch news footage and was able to pick a couple of little tics. For instance, she plays with her hands a lot and has a certain way of holding them on her lap when she's in public. ”

I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong. ”

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. ”

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper. ”

Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. ”

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world. ”

I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience. ”

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again. ”

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit. ”