I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do.

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.