There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

Everything contains its antithesis.