The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.