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

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

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

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.