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

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

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

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

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.