I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

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

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.