I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.