I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

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

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

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.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.