But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

Life is a journey, Frannie darling, " Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted, ' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

Observe your environment. Invite people into your life that don't look like you or think like you

There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.