I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

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

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

I need to learn every day.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.