Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

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

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

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.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

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.