Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. [...] There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.