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.

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

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.

There are very few things that surprise me.

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

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

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.