Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.