I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life. . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.