Celia Imrie

“My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.”

“Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.”

“I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!”

“I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.”

“If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!'”

“Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.”

“Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.”