When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.

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

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

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

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.