Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.