I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.

I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin?" And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them.

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

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.

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.