Dustin Hoffman thinks his ''soul expands'' as he grows older.

The 75-year-old actor - who has been married to second wife Lisa since 1980 - isn't concerned about his advancing years because he is ''growing and expanding'' as a person, especially as he is aware of the differences in how the sexes lead their lives.

Sir Anthony Hopkins has put in an offer to buy his childhood house.

The 'Hitchcock' actor surprised the owners of the house, Chris Trainor and his wife Carly Culver, in Port Talbot, South Wales, when he turned up with his wife Stella Arroyave, on their way back to London from Pembrokeshire after the famous couple renewed their wedding vows at St David's Cathedral.

Dame Helen Mirren thinks the death of the royal hoax nurse is ''incredibly tragic''.

The actress - who played Prince William's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth in the 2006 film 'The Queen' - has spoken of her shock at the apparent suicide of nurse Jacintha Saldanha following a prank call made by Australian radio DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian to the King Edward VII Hospital in London to find out the condition of the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, who was admitted to the hospital last week for severe morning sickness.

Dame Helen Mirren hated Alfred Hitchcock when they first met.

The Oscar-winning actress plays the iconic director's wife Alma Reville in new biopic 'Hitchcock', but she has revealed she once endured a disastrous audition for the filmmaker's thriller 'Frenzy' in the early 1970s because she felt he disliked the way she looked.