I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.