Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.