Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.