It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.