Never fall out of love with life

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

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

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 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.

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