If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

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.

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

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

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

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

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