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

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

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.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.