I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.