One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.