In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

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 don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.

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.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

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

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.