On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.