I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.