To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.

ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.