I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.