It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.