I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

I have learned that chances don’t always come to you

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

I want my next girlfriend to be my wife.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Unless and until you introspect you cannot even respect yourself. You cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what's wrong.

My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.