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“Alcohol in families is often kept secret. There's a sense of shame.”
“Sometimes you do a job and you think, oh golly, that's enough isn't it?”
“I have one daughter, but I always thought I'd have four.”
“I think French hotels are generally pretty awful - lumpy beds, often not terribly clean and just uncomfortable - but usually the food is fantastic.”
“The first job of an actress, for me, is creating relationships with other characters, and you have to achieve that almost instantly.”
“At around 45, when I was being offered the same old boring TV parts. So I went back to the theatre.”
“I don't want to find 'my part' and keep doing it.”
“My own sister has always been apparently more successful socially. I was much more the serious one. While she was out shopping for clothes, I was more inclined to be staying in, playing the piano.”
“I would love to have had more children, but it's not a huge regret when the child I have is so completely fantastic.”
“I had difficulties getting into telly, because people say that if you've been in the theatre you'll shout, but then I did telly and I didn't shout.”
“I remember getting out of bed at night and sitting on the stairs listening to my parents arguing and wishing I had the courage to ask them to stop.”
“To be asked to do something quite unusual keeps you going.”
“That's what I enjoy: the ensemble, being in a company, being part of something.”
“When my parents were going, 'Oh God, are you going to be an actress?' I decided I'd give it my best shot until I was 30, and as I hit 30 it all started taking off, just in the nick of time.”
“It's fine to be an older man in my business, but not an older woman. I think of the 'Lord of the Rings' films, which had four or five leading men who were over 60 and the oldest woman was Cate Blanchett.”
“I knew nothing about India before 'Gandhi.' It seemed quite sort of frightening the place where hippies used to go in the '60s.”
“My mother was an alcoholic, in and out of hospital my entire childhood. My father, a doctor, divorced her when I was 14. My brother and sister and I had no one to turn to, and we never spoke about it.”
“Band Of Gold' nearly did me in. We had 16 weeks of night shoots and I was never getting home to London and my husband Jo.”
“My fantasy would be somewhere very sunny, where I'm not burning and I've had lots of sleep and read lots of books.”
“I went to a posh school but I'm not a posh person.”