Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.