I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.

I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.

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

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

The only real failure is the failure to try.