“Very early on there were the girls who were good at singing, at the ar...” — Geraldine James Quote

“Very early on there were the girls who were good at singing, at the arts, or mathematics or languages, and I wasn't good at anything. I didn't shine.”

“If you're asked constantly to do something extremely dull, you don't have to commit any imaginative power.”

“My fantasy was to have a home in the country with six children, all with different fathers. The fathers would come down occasionally and provide for us. I thought that was a marvellous solution - just me and all my kids.”

“If you look at my generation, there are some pretty amazing actresses.”

“My mother was an alcoholic, in and out of hospital my entire childhood. My father, a doctor, divorced her when I was 14. My brother and sister and I had no one to turn to, and we never spoke about it.”

“As a woman growing older I've gone through that process of suddenly realising I'm invisible in the world, having not been invisible when I was young.”

“People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.”

“Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.”

“I would like to speak 10 languages.”

“It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.”

“People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!”

“I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.”