Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

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

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.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.