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

I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs.

I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.

We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.