I couldn't be a one-woman show, since I wouldn't have anybody to bounce off from. Once you're out there, dribbling on, you have nobody to interrupt you. I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

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

I need to learn every day.

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.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.