We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

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

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

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.