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

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

I feel now like a hinge between generations, which is strange. It just happened recently. I think it's because my daughter is so much like me at her age. I feel like I'm reliving my own mother's experience of raising me.

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

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.